I Am Not Your Negro

February. 03,2017      R
Rating:
7.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Samuel L. Jackson as  Narrator (voice)
James Baldwin as  Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr. as  Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X as  Self (archive footage)
Medgar Evers as  Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy as  Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte as  Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett as  Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan as  Self (archive footage)
Sidney Poitier as  Various Roles (archive footage)

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