I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

Featuring James Baldwin
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Screenshot from 'I Am Not Your Negro' movie trailer

Ed McNulty writes, "The Haitian-born filmmaker in a way finishes a work that Baldwin was working on at the time of his death in 1987, “Remember This House.” He had completed just 30 pages and was hoping to visit the survivors of the three prophets he had cherished as friends, murdered between 1963 and 1967, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.

"As we see words addressed to his literary agent typed onto the screen, Baldwin wanted 'these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did, and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing the people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.'”

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