PITTSFIELD — Writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin followed in the footsteps of Christ’s apostles, preaching a gospel that had the power to change the world.
So believes writer Jamaica Kincaid, who compared the world’s response to Baldwin to the Corinthians and Galatians who ignored St. Paul’s missives.
“You cannot believe that ‘The Fire Next Time,’ or all of those essays, didn’t immediately — on being seen by contemporary Galatians and Corinthians — change the world, and make it into something not only better: different,” Kincaid said at an event Thursday afternoon marking Baldwin’s centennial.
She
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