In recognition of United Against Hate Week, see the Academy Award-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, which The New York Times describes as a "thrilling introduction" to James Baldwin's work, and participate in an optional discussion after the screening.

In 1979, Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. 

At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.

Now, in his incendiary documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into Black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, 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.

I Am Not Your Negro is rated PG-13 for disturbing violent images, thematic material, language, and brief nudity.

No registration is required. 

United Against Hate Week (Nov. 13-19, 2022) is a call for local civic action to stop the hate and implicit biases that are a dangerous threat to the safety and civility of our community.