I Am Not Your Negro Av James Baldwin

<p><b>The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film</b><br><br>In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, <i>I Am Not Your Negro,</i> Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. <br><br>''Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man''s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"'' <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>''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'' <i>Variet</i>y<br><br> ''A cinematic séance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br> ''<i>I Am Not Your Negro</i> turns James Baldwin into a prophet'' <i>Rolling Stone</i></p>