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'I stand on James Baldwin’s shoulders, and I intend to expand his legacy for generations to come,' the Pose star said in a statement.

Billy Porter will portray James Baldwin in an upcoming biopic.

GRAMMY, EMMY, and Tony Award-winner Billy Porter will star in and co-write a new biopic based on the life of author and human rights activist James Baldwin. Porter has stated that it has been a career-long goal to bring Baldwin's story to the big screen. Baldwin's work includes 'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' and more.

Billy Porter to Portray James Baldwin in Upcoming Biopic Billy Porter has booked a very exciting new role! The 53-year-old Emmy, Tony, and Grammy winner will be portraying the legendary gay novelist, essayist, and activist…

“It only becomes art if it touches other people.” ― Andreas Eschbach, The Carpet Makers

Even if you’ve read all of his work, there are still some things you might not know about the 'Go Tell It On the Mountain' author.

Among many extraordinary adventures he once inadvertently shared a guesthouse with two of Osama bin Laden’s suicide bombers

The art of American painter Beauford Delaney, who died more than four decades ago, deserves sustained attention from a major New York museum. That it

“[Beauford] Delaney repeatedly turned to art to annihilate the boundaries of fixed identity in ways that were not simply aesthetic…but also spiritual. Such ecstatic annihilations ran ...

To begin with, Anunnaki translates to “princely blood” or “seed of Anu”, not “those who came down” or “those who came from heaven to earth”, as many modern sources have claimed. The Anunnaki are “the Sumerian deities of the old primordial time;” a pantheon of gods who were the children of the sky god Anu and his sister, Ki. Significantly, some scholars have come to realize that the Anunnaki should more appropriately be considered demi-gods or semi-divine beings. Apparentl...