I Am Not Your Negro is available to watch on BFI Player, here.
With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck (Tropical) has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote – a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the 50s and 60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today and examines American racial imagery and iconography.
I Am Not Your Negro screens on release from Fri 7 Apr.
We review I Am Not Your Negro in our April film podcast. Take a listen below, just skip to the 18.10 mark…