{"id":37087,"date":"2024-10-14T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37087"},"modified":"2024-10-14T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:19:34","slug":"i-am-not-your-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37087","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Am Not Your Negro&#8221; (2016) directed by Raoul Peck \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z101424zview_iamnotyournegro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>I Am Not Your Negro<\/b><\/i><\/em> (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Raoul Peck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>James Baldwin, Raoul Peck<\/strong> based on <em>Remember This House <\/em>by<strong> James Baldwin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James Baldwin, Martin Luther King<\/strong><strong>, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Robert F. Kennedy, Harry Belafonte, Dick Cavett, Bob Dylan, Sidney Poitier, Ray Charles, Doris Day, Gary Cooper, Tony Curtis, Joan Crawford, Rod Steiger, Richard Widmark, Fay Wray, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Michelle Obama, George W. Bush, Stepin Fetchit, Audrey Hepburn, J. Edgar Hoover, Coretta Scott King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, <\/strong>and <strong>Samuel L. Jackson <\/strong>(narration)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>In &#8220;Remember This House&#8221; Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished -a radical narration about race in America, through the lives and assassinations of three of his friends: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers and Malcolm X. using only the writer&#8217;s original words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Author and activist, James Baldwin intended to write a book exploring racism in America through his eyes and what he learned from his friends civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.\u00a0 Baldwin started the manuscript but died before it was finished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Filmmaker Raoul Peck decided to make a documentary using Baldwin&#8217;s manuscript, his words from interviews and writings to create a film that would envision Baldwin&#8217;s planned book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nominated for 2017 <em>Academy Award<\/em> Best Documentary Feature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Baldwin was a fascinating speaker.\u00a0 He was intelligent, perceptive and had the ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>I Am Not Your Negro<\/b><\/i> (2016)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z101424zview_iamnotyournegro2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am Not Your Negro (2016) Director: Raoul Peck Screenplay: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck based on Remember This House by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,17,72,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37239,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37087\/revisions\/37239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}