Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and with unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, I Am Not Your Negro is the cinematic reimagining of the book Baldwin never wrote.
Award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck weaves a radical narrative about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends – Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.
Through its unflinching examination of the civil rights movements of the 50s and 60s, I Am Not Your Negro also uncovers the wider story of America’s irrational relationship with race, its history of racial iconography and image-making, and what it means to be black in America today.
Event/ This screening will be introduced by film critic Ellen E. Jones, and followed by a discussion with Ellen and Douglas Field, Baldwin scholar and founding editor of James Baldwin Review (University of Manchester)