James Baldwin
Author
Series
Library of America volume 98
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. 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 three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.