In an America on Fire, Baldwin’s Legacy Led Me to Paris
Just as America’s horrors led Baldwin to flee decades before, I waded through my own fear as a gay, black man coming of age in an America burning once again.
Baldwin was saved many times, by himself or others, but he could have been saved far more.
Prince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican American writer and activist based in Columbus, Ohio. He is writing his debut memoir on life in Obama and Trump’s America and his political, coming of age.
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