National Bestseller In his final years Baldwin envisioned a book about his three assassinated
friends Medgar Evers Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the
project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined Baldwin's oeuvre
to compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Peck weaves these texts together
brilliantly imagining the book that Baldwin never wrote with selected published and unpublished
passages essays letters notes and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent
now as they have ever been. Peck's film uses them to jump through time juxtaposing Baldwin's
private words with his public statements in a blazing examination of the tragic history of
race in America. This edition contains more than 40 black-and-white images from the film.
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary
