Screening Room: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’

In the 1970s, James Baldwin started working on a book about his three friends who had been martyred for the civil rights cause: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The book was never finished. The spectacular and burningly relevant new documentary,I Am Not Your Negro, threads the pieces of that elegy through a skein of dramatic footage.

I Am Not Your Negrois opening this weekin limited release, followed by a full roll-out in February. My review is atPopMatters:

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