I Am Not Your Negro

A new documentary, i am not your negro, about an unfinished book he was working on reveals just how loudly his writing would echo into the 20 first century. It always takes a piece of art or a piece of film making to remind us how much a figure from the past speaks powerfully to our present. Why does it feel like james baldwin speaks so urgently to this moment? Well, there's so many answers to that question. The specific things he is writing about, black bodies, black death at the hands of white people, denial that slavery still means something.