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I Am Not Your Negro | Indie Lens Pop-Up

FREE – Thu. Dec. 14, 7pm at WKAR | View a special screening and join the conversation. 

UPDATE: ALL SEATS HAVE BEEN RESERVED.

There are often no-shows for any event. Standby seating may be available on a first-come, first-served basis after guests with tickets are seated.

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You're invited to join your community at the next Indie Lens Pop-Up film screening, featuring I Am Not Your Negro. One of the most acclaimed films of the year and an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, the new film by 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, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, and with a flood of rich archival material.

I Am Not Your Negro | Indie Lens Pop-Up takes place Thursday, December 14 at 7 p.m.

Join the conversation with panelists whose lives were impacted by James Baldwin’s writings and the Civil Rights movement.

THE PANELISTS

Pero G. Dagbovie
University Distinguished Professor, MSU Department of History
Associate Dean, MSU Graduate School

Tama Lynne Hamilton-Wray
Assistant Professor, MSU Residential College Arts & Humanities

Eva Evans
Retired Deputy Superintendent, Lansing School District

Chuck Stokes
Editorial/Public Affairs Director, WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 Detroit

FREE WITH RESERVATION

This event is free, but registration is required. |  UPDATE: ALL SEATS HAVE BEEN RESERVED. 

WHERE

Communication Arts & Sciences Building, WKAR Studio A, 404 Wilson Road, on the campus of Michigan State University.

PARKING

Parking is free after 6 p.m. in the adjacent Trowbridge Road parking ramp.
Parking address: 1149 Red Cedar Road, East Lansing, MI 48824

MORE ABOUT THE FILM

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.

BROADCAST PREMIERE

I Am Not Your Negro airs Mon. Jan. 15 at 9pm on WKAR.

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