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RAINBOW PUSH COALITION HOSTS  “I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO” SCREENING IN CHICAGO AT THE DUSABLE MUSEUM

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RAINBOW PUSH COALITION HOSTS  “I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO” SCREENING IN CHICAGO AT THE DUSABLE MUSEUM

(CHICAGO) January 27, 2017: The Rainbow PUSH Coalition (RPC) joined forces with the DuSable Museum and the Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF) for a private influencer screening of the new James Baldwin documentary, I Am Not Your Negrowhich was just recently nominated as “Best Documentary Feature” for the 89thAcademy Awards!
Click here for an exclusive quote on receiving the nomination from the film’s director, Raoul Peck: http://conta.cc/2kizvFz.
The evening kicked off with an enthusiastic welcome by RPC spokesperson, Professor Jonathan Jackson. After his greeting, he invited Perri Irmer, President & CEO of the DuSable Museum, to greet the audience as well as Randy Crumpton, member of the governing board of directors and co-chair of the Black Perspectives committee for Cinema/Chicago and CIFF.
Notable attendees included: Bonnie DeShong (DuSable Museum), Pastor Janette D. Wilson (RPC), Chan Smith (Ebony Magazine), Toure Muhammed (Bean Soup Times), Linda & Al Lerner (Movies and Shakers) and many more.
 ABOUT THE FILM

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

At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of this manuscript.

Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.
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