I Am Not Your Negro 2017 Watch Online

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James Baldwin’s Unfinished Novel

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

The Story Behind “Remember This House”

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 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 left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.—Jwelch5742

Documenting American History

Through Samuel L. Jackson’s familiar voice, Raoul Peck’s bold and brutally honest documentary animates the crisp and noble words of the African-American writer, civil rights activist, poet, and thinker, James Baldwin. Expressing bitter truths while documenting centuries of covert or unapologetic racism, Baldwin’s uncompleted thirty-page manuscript, “Remember this House”, was meant to be the sadly veracious chronicle of the American history, through the intertwined stories of the fallen heroes and assassinated friends: Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X. Is James Baldwin’s complex endeavor to document the hopelessness of the black people still relevant today? Are we doomed to repeat the same calamitous mistakes of an ignoble past?—Nick Riganas

Meditation on Black Identity

Based on Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript Remember This House – a stirring, personal account of the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. – acclaimed director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States, using meticulously assembled archival footage and driven by stirring voiceover narration from Samuel L. Jackson.

Experience the powerful narrative of I Am Not Your Negro by watching it online now. Witness the thought-provoking exploration of race, history, and identity by James Baldwin in this captivating documentary.