I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin If there were a guide

If there were a guide to assist in systematically evaluating critical aspects of life

Dan Gilbert

But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him

nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the Negro problem and Harlem as a site of crime

His vision

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin If there were a guideThe New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary filmIn June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words