Raoul Peck
The Best Films of 2016
PopMatters presents a list of the best films that surfaced in 2016 and impressed us with their cinematic visions of where we’ve been.
Rage Plus Time Equals Prophecy: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
James Baldwin’s requiem for three Civil Rights martyrs is also a letter addressed to future America and its “vast, unthinking, cruel white majority.”
James Baldwin’s Resounding Words in ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
As James Baldwin reminds us, “History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”