MOVIE · 2017
I Am Not Your Negro
Documentary93 min
Drawing on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House, the film uses Baldwin’s words to trace racism in the United States through his recollections of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. Samuel L. Jackson reads Baldwin in voiceover as archival footage, television appearances, and clips from American movies move between the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s and later moments in public life. Baldwin knew all three men personally, and his memories sit beside images of how Black Americans were represented on screen and in the national imagination.
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