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America 2022-09-10 14:58:27
America from an African-American perspective
The documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" was completed in 2016, and the narrative is drawn from an unfinished work by the black novelist, essayist, playwright and poet James Baldwin. works. Black actor Samuel Jackson read aloud, sounding the tone of voice that matched the persuasiveness, insight and...
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Kimberly 2022-09-10 17:13:36
Civic Education Must-See Movies
"I'm Not Your Negro" is based on writer James Baldwin's unfinished recollection of the civil rights movement trio of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s manuscript Remembering Documentary by Remember This House. The film is run through Baldwin's narration, using a lot of...
Arte Johnson
Extended Reading
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James Baldwin: ...a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.
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James Baldwin: It comes as a great shock, around the age of five or six or seven, to discover that Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, when you were rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians were you. It comes as a great shock to discover the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity has not in its whole system of reality evolved any place for you.
