A Celebration of James Baldwin – A 20th Century Masters Tribute by PEN America published on 2017-04-25T21:31:26Z A Celebration of James Baldwin – A 20th Century Masters Tribute: an event sponsored by the writers group PEN American Center, in collaboration with the New Yorker magazine and the Schomburg Center, and included presentations by novelists Chinua Achebe, Russell Banks and John Edgar Wideman, critic Hilton Als, poet Amiri Baraka, scholar Eleanor Traylor, and biographers Arnold Rampersad and David Leeming, as well as readings by poet and performer Carl Hancock Rux, photographs by Sedat Pakay, and an archival recording of James Baldwin singing “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” Comment by PEN America Amiri Baraka 2017-05-09T20:08:44Z Comment by PEN America Chinua Achebe 2017-05-09T20:05:43Z Comment by PEN America Nikki Giovanni 2017-05-09T20:02:21Z Comment by PEN America Hilton Als 2017-05-09T19:09:32Z