Film: I Am Not Your Negro

In the year of the James Baldwin Centennial, join us to watch and discuss: I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck.

Filmmaker Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro features the work of the late writer, poet, and social critic, James Baldwin.

At the time of his death in 1987, he was working on a book, Remember This House, in which he wanted to explore the lives of three of his civil rights movement contemporaries and close personal friends: Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. It was never completed, but his notes for that project became the foundation for Peck's film.

Two timely quotes by James Baldwin:

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time — and in one's work."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Watch the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM