2017-02-10
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Academy
Awards, Raoul Peck's extraordinary "I Am Not Your Negro" uses as its framework
an unfinished 30-page manuscript by author and essayist James Baldwin. The book
proposal was started in 1979, and the final work was to explore the experience
of being black in America viewed through the prism of the deaths of Baldwin's
friends, and legendary figures of the civil rights movement, Medgar Evers,
Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.…