Film Discussion: BLACK, BOLD, AND BRILLIANT

We’ll watch clips of the films and explore what it looks like to exist in the fullness of Black beauty, strength, and brilliance.

I Am Not Your Negro is an incendiary film that brings life to James Baldwin’s writing on three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and MLK, Jr. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. Ultimately, by examining these murders and our racial moment, it is a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel prize-winner. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history, and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.