News: Live Performances of "DEBATE: Baldwin vs Buckley" via YouTube and Cable Oct. 22, 23, and 24 [UPDATE: now avail. through 11/15]
Image courtesy Spin Cycle PR the american vicarious in collaboration with BRIC will broadcast DEBATE: Baldwin vs Buckley , a live staging of the historic clash between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr., October 22, 23, and 24. This live staging will be streamed and broadcast via YouTube and cable. UPDATE 10/17/20: If you missed the live streamed performances, one night’s broadcast is now available to watch anytime for free via YouTube through November 15. View it here . “Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?” This was the topic on February 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual. The stage was set for an epic confrontation that p...