When James Baldwin died in 1987, he had written 30 pages of his next book. 40 years later, director Raoul Peck picks up the thread in Amazon Studios' and Magnolia Pictures' I Am Not Your Negro.
Framed with Baldwin's interviews and readings by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro explores the systemic oppression of Black people in America, starting with the very language used to describe them.
The film is an extension of Baldwin's unfinished Remember This House, which would have explored the assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. "By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for," Magnolia and Amazon said in a press release.
"I didn't want any talking heads, I didn't want anybody to interpret him, to speak for him," Peck told The Hollywood Reporter in November. "I wanted to be inside his head."
I Am Not Your Negro releases on Feb. 3.
