I Am

Not

Your

Negro

We invite you for our second RHS racial equity virtual movie and discussion night! We will watch the movie "I Am Not Your Negro" virtually and then have guided discussion about the movie in small groups afterwards.

If you are interested in joining us, please sign up here

Date:

Thursday, August 6th, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Virtual - via Zoom (An invitation will be sent to you a week before the event. You can sign up at the link above!)

Credit:

3 clock hours for relicensing; Equity category

About the film:

At the time of his passing in 1987, James Baldwin left behind just 30 pages of an unfinished book project titled “Remember This House.” It was to be a personal account of the rise and fall of fellow civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, each of whom he had come to know personally before their assassinations. Picking up where Baldwin left off, director Raoul Peck attempts to weave together these remaining loose narrative threads using only Baldwin’s words, via startlingly clairvoyant video clips of Baldwin in interviews or lectures, and earthily interpreted readings of Baldwin’s texts by Samuel L. Jackson. The result is an interpretive essayistic documentary that surveys how the civil rights movement and America’s failures to wholly embrace it are still frightenly relevant and continue to shape our current times.

James Baldwin has long been an eloquent voice on race relations and the African-American experience, appearing in panel discussions alongside his more well-known contemporaries throughout the 1960s while publishing novels, essays, and scripts for the stage until his death in the 1980s. He also wrote a considerable amount of film criticism, culling from his memories of watching Doris Day and Gary Cooper or the films of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier to analyze the inequalities depicted and perpetuated in racial representations on screen. Pulling from Baldwin’s writings, as well as the clips from the movies he wrote about, Peck gives Baldwin his big-screen due with crystalline lucidity and a deeply emotional sense of cultural purpose.

Keep Certified Directions:

Search for course titled - “RHS Staff only: “I Am Not Your Negro” Movie and Discussion”

You will receive 3 CEU hours in the area of Cultural Competency for each session.

To sign up:

  1. Go to KeepCertified

  2. Login using your full school email address (ex: calvin.keasling[at]district196.org) and your own password that you set up (probably different than your email password)

  3. Along the top, select “Browse Classes”

  4. In the filter box, type “RHS”

  5. Find " RHS Staff only: “I Am Not Your Negro” Movie and Discussion”

  6. Click “Enroll” (Repeat steps 4-6 if attending both sessions)

  7. You’re done!