The 2017 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD from Magnolia Home Entertainment on May 2. The documentary is adapted from novelist and activist James Baldwin’s book, “Remember This House.” In 1979, Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing the book. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. “I Am Not Your Negro” revisits the assassinations of America’s most influential civil rights activists: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. The docuseries is narrated by Academy Award Nominee Samuel L. Jackson and features archive footage of James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte, Ray Charles, Sidney Poitier, Billy Dee Williams and a host other iconic figures. Raoul Peck directs the documentary.
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