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Untitled — James Baldwin | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! Civil Rights Activist • Poet • Playwright • born 2 August 1924 Today marks what would have been James Baldwin's 102nd birthday. Best known for landmark works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Fire Next Time , Baldwin was also a gifted playwright, poet, and essayist. Below is his poem "Untitled," which can be read as reflecting his lifelong struggle with faith. Raised by a strict, deeply religious stepfather who was also a preacher, Baldwin often explored the tensions between religion, identity, and freedom in his writing. Maya Angelou once said of him: "James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. His ...