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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...
Extended Reading
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James Baldwin: Someone once said to me that the people in general cannot bear very much reality. He meant by this that they prefer fantasy to a truthful recreation of their experience. People have quite enough reality to bear, by simply getting through their lives, raising their children, dealing with the eternal conundrums of birth, taxes, and death.
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James Baldwin: We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.
