I Am Not Your Negro

 

 

In 1979 James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his new (and what would be his last) book Remember This House, which recounted the lives and successive assassinations of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Baldwin was not able to complete the book before his death and the unfinished manuscript was entrusted to director Raoul Peck. This penetrating and acclaimed documentary uses Baldwin’s enduring words to consider the triumphs and tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement in light of race politics in the US today.