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Hisbrilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary \"I Am Not Your Negro.\"Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's \u003ci\u003eCollected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e isthe most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as \"The Harlem Ghetto,\" \"Everybody's Protest Novel,\" \"Many Thousands Gone,\" and \"Stranger in the Village.\" Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The classic \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to \"end the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world.\" The later volumes \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Finds Work\u003c\/i\u003e (1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film criticism. 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