A Program with Raoul Peck
A Program with Raoul Peck | Wednesday, October 18 | 4:10 p.m. | Sarratt Cinema
Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro was based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript “Remember This House” and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. The film examines the lives and deaths of civil rights leaders Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, as well as Baldwin’s writings and reflections on the U.S. civil rights movement. The film was nominated for an Academy Award. Peck’s large body of work also includes Lumumba (2000), Sometimes in April (2005), and The Young Karl Marx (2017). His campus visit is co-sponsored by several Vanderbilt University departments and programs. Additionally, Peck’s films Lumumba and I Am Not Your Negro will be screened on October 4 and October 16, respectively, at Sarratt Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Professor Moses Ochonu will lead a discussion with audience members following the film Lumumba and Professors Jen Fay and Hortense Spillers will lead a discussion following the showing of I Am Not Your Negro.