San Antonio's Gemini Ink presenting Letters to James Baldwin on Thursday

To close out Pride Month, San Antonio literary nonprofit Gemini Ink is hosting Letters to James Baldwin, a reading, discussion and open mic this Thursday to celebrate the life and legacy of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin (1924-1987). Although best known for his novels Go Tell It on the Mountain, If Beale Street Could Talk and Giovanni’s Room as well as the seminal essay collection Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin’s profundity extended to short stories, plays, poems and essays.