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New film based on James Baldwin’s unfinished ‘Remember This House’

I Am Not Your Negro is a new documentary film by Raoul Peck based on an unfinished manuscript by James Balwin (author of recently republished ‘The Fire Next Time’) called Remember This House. In it he told the stories of three of his friends who died before they reached 40: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers. This review in The Independent comments: “Baldwin was writing more than 30 years ago. Not so much has changed since then”, but the intention is to provoke rather than induce despair. More…

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