Based on the Oscar-nominated documentary film and a New York Times bestseller. ‘Baldwin’s voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence’ — Variety In June 1979, James Baldwin — writer, activist, and one of the most penetrating voices America has ever produced — set out to tell his country’s story through the lives of three friends, all murdered for what they stood for: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. He never finished it. Decades later, filmmaker Raoul Peck returned to Baldwin’s unwritten book and, working entirely from Baldwin’s own words, brought it into being. The result is I Am Not Your Negro: a fierce, lyrical, and radical reckoning with race in the United States — past and present. ‘Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, “devastated my universe”‘ — The New York Times ‘A cinematic seance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made’ — Guardian ‘I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet’ — Rolling Stone
ISBN 13: 9780141986678
Author: James Baldwin
