Join the International Literary Festival Berlin & @GoetheToronto freeworldwide screening day of Oscar-nominated documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” on December 10, 6pm EST with a Twitter contextualisation by Dr. Vershawn Young.
In 1979, James 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 his death in 1987, Baldwin left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. "I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties, when there were not that many authors in whom I could recognize myself, he was an important guide and mentor to me, as he was to many others. He helped me understand who I was and decipher the world around me," says filmmaker Raoul Peck.
Baldwin's discontinued project became the springboard for Peck's film "I Am Not Your Negro," (trailer) discussing Baldwin’s lived experiences in his own words as read by Samuel L. Jackson. On 10 December 2020, Human Rights Day, the Goethe-Institut Toronto is joining the international literary festival Berlin ilb and many other global organisations in a worldwide viewing day. Meet us on Twitter @GoetheToronto at 6pm EST alongside Baldwin expert and professor of African American Studies, Vershawn Young, who will contextualise the film and Baldwin's work and legacy and take your questions. Continue reading "Worldwide screening day: Raoul Peck's "I..." »
