{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Why James Baldwin's work is attracting renewed attention in 2020","publication_date":"August 03, 2020","summary":"Sunday marked what would have been literary icon James Baldwin's 96th birthday, in a year when the resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests across the world has renewed interest in his work. A new book, \"Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,\" explores Baldwin's ideas in current context. Amna Nawaz talks to its author, Eddie Glaude Jr. of Princeton University.","author_name":"By PBS NewsHour","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2020\/08\/5d9548d8bd140a232fae1890bcefdaf5-eddieglaude-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}