The Cinematique Theater in Daytona Beach is showing the Academy Award-nominated film “I Am Not Your Negro,’’ about the renowned author James Baldwin, through March 16.
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On March 5, there were two screenings of the documentary. The screenings were followed by a community discussion led by professors from Bethune-Cookman University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Students also were involved in the discussion.
At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of a manuscript that was supposed to be about the lives and assassinations of his friends – Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the documentary, filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
