January 28, 1988 (page 31 of 64). (1988, Jan 28). Evening Standard (1897-2010)

‘Metro Gnome’

‘Black Lustre’

‘Best-selling black autobiographer, poet and human rights campaighner Maya Angelou will be flying in from America to the lowly purlieus of Brixton next week to lead to a striking tribute to the late James Baldwin. Baldwin ,whose prize winning early novels, especially Go and Tell it on the Mountain and Another country, gradually gave way to polemical political works such as The Fire Next Time, died in December in St Paul-le-Vence near Nice. Now a national black arts group called Creation for Liberation – based at the once in famous “Front Line” of Railton Road Brixton — is holding a memorial thrash at Lambeth Town Hall on Wednesday February 3rd at 7:30.’.