The 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 to create a radical powerful and poetic work on race in the United States then and today. Thrilling . . . A portrait of one mans confrontation with a country that murder by murder as he once put it devastated my universe The New York TimesBaldwins voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prosepoet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence Variety A cinematic sance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made Guardian I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet Rolling Stone