In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of 3 of his close friends - Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. When Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind only thirty pages of his manuscript. Now filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-theminute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words read by Samuel L. Jackson, alongside a flood of rich archival material. The film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of Evers, Malcolm X and King Jr. to explore and bring a fresh and radical perspective to the current racial narrative in America. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck challenge the very definition of what America stands for.
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