I Am Not Your Negro

Spoken: English. Subtitles: Dutch.

Voice-over: Samuel L. Jackson

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project: Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he had written only thirty pages of this manuscript. In this film, Raoul Peck builds on Baldwin’s unfinished book. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words accompanied by a flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.