Film: I am not your negro

December will mark the 30th anniversary of the death of James Baldwin.

This American author, poet, intellectual, and personal friend of the leaders of the civil rights movement could provide the Black Lives Matter movement with the words and the intellectual analysis it needs to turn temporary rage into sustainable protest.

Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro links the two by overlaying footage of the current protest marches and violence with Baldwin’s words (either recordings or Samuel L. Jackson’s groovy voice-over). I Am Not Your Negro compellingly and stylishly hits nails on the head. Alas.

> I am not your negro. FR, US, dir.: Raoul Peck