Black History Month Movie Night: “I Am Not Your Negro”

This 2016 Oscar-nominated documentary and social critique film essay is directed by Raoul Peck and based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House. Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin’s recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as his personal observations of American history. The documentary won the award for best documentary from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).