I Am Not Your Negro

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I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary film directed by Raoul Peck with narration by Samuel L. Jackson. The Film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won the People’s Choice Award for documentary. It also one of the Best Documentary nominees at this year’s Academy Awards.

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material.

“Medgar Evers died on June 12, 1963. Malcolm X died on February 21, 1965. And Martin Luther King Jr. died on April 4, 1968. I came upon these three men and their assassination much later,” Peck explains. “These three facts, these elements of history, from the starting point, the “evidence” you might say, form a deep and intimate personal reflection on my own political and cultural mythology, my own experiences of racism and intellectual violence.”

I Am Not Your Negro is rated PG.