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Sunday, February 26, 3pm at the Ritz 5
Please join us to commemorate Black History Month with a screening of the Oscar nominated film I Am Not Your Negro followed by a discussion and refreshments hosted by a local alum at her home in Society Hill.
Film: Sunday, February 26, 3pm at the Ritz 5, 214 Walnut Street, between 2nd & 3rd Streets, Philadelphia, PA, 19106
Tickets can be purchased at the theatre or online: https://www.landmarktheatres.com/philadelphia/ritz-five/film-info/i-am-not-your-negro
Please RSVP to Erin at WIP-Admissions@alum.wellesley.edu.
Synopsis: In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal account of three assassinated leaders who were also 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 his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Sometimes in April, Lumumba) envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. Using only Baldwin’s words, either spoken by the man himself or read by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material, Peck has crafted a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. I Am Not Your Negro is a poetic, eloquent and thought-provoking journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter; it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.