With unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote.

In 1979, Baldwin rote a letter to his literary agent, describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was set to be a revolutionary personal account of the lives and assassinations of his three close friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers.

This radical narration manages to tell the story Baldwin was never able to complete, after finishing just 30 pages of his radical narrative upon his death in 1987. Brilliantly, Peck has only used the writer’s original words for the full-length film.

By confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassinations of these three men, Peck is able to uncover a larger narrative of America’s historical and current denial and irrational relationship with race.

Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the ’50s and ’60s, I Am Not Your Negro is about what it means to be black in America today.