“We the People”
A Film Series to Promote Conversation about Race & Diversity
Join others interested in cultivating relationships across racial & societal divides to build an inclusive community.
7 PM, Friday, June 30, 2017
Seekers Church 276 Carroll Street NW Takoma, DC
(you are welcome to bring a brown bag dinner-we’ll bring the popcorn!)
I Am Not Your Negro
Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. 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 Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
