![]() In that letter, he wrote that he wanted to explore the lives of three of his civil rights movement contemporaries and close personal friends: Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. It was never completed, but his notes for that project became the foundation for Peck's I Am Not Your Negro.Īmong those notes was a letter J Baldwin wrote to his literary agent, Jay Acton, in 1979. Baldwin's writing explored race, class and sexuality in Western society, and at the time of his death in 1987, he was working on a book, Remember This House. ![]() James Baldwin, in the new documentary I Am Not Your Negro.Įditor's note: This piece includes quotes from James Baldwin in which he uses a racial slur.įimmaker Raoul Peck's Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro features the work of the late writer, poet, and social critic James Baldwin.
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