Lovely to be with you. And you. Nice to see you. What do we have . This is a really, really good week. We have i am not your negro, which is an oscar nominated documentary about James Baldwin. We have raw, which is a real breathtaking debut feature. And a quiet passion, Terence Davies film about emily dickinson. And i am not your negro, billed as a documentary. Is it solidly a documentary, a funny genre . Well, basically what it is if its based on an unfinished project that James Baldwin had started working on, to tell the story of america through the story of three men, medgar evers, malcom x and Martin Luther king. And so what you get is the film is narrated by samuel ljackson, and it mixes news footage, reportage, clips from movies, clips from Television Programmes and it puts together basically a narrative which tells the story in a way which is both polemical and i think rather poetic. One of the outstanding features is some of the footage of baldwin himself, who comes across as a
They also suggest she faced censorship and discrimination which tested her skill as a writer, and may have ultimately encouraged her to return to the US.
February was Black History but you can still contemplate its meaning by reading “The Enemy Within: Why We Black Americans Must Confront Ourselves” by Shakir Bakari Williams. Doubtful there is any ethnic group which could use a good look in the mirror. Sometimes we are our own oppressors. Black America is no exception (and perhaps the most compelling example).
Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr. discuss in an interview their fear about portraying Malcolm X and MLK in Nat Geo Genius , their touchstone for the characters, and what they hoped to achieve
The Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission selected Lincoln artist, Nathan Murray to design and create a bust of Malcom X for his induction into the state's Hall of Fame this year.