I Am Not Your Negro
Status:
Released
Production:
Independent Lens
Aired:
2017-02-03
I Am Not Your Negro
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Documentary
Characters
Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
James Baldwin
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Medgar Evers
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte
Self (archive footage)
Paul Weiss
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
Self (archive footage)
H. Rap Brown
Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
Self (archive footage)
Leander Perez
Self - White Citizens Council (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier
Various Roles (archive footage)
Ray Charles
Self (archive footage)