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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ film coming to Lake Flower Landing

Free public screening Aug. 24

By the Enterprise staff

SARANAC LAKE — John Brown Lives! is teaming up with Lake Flower Landing to bring the award-winning documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” to this village.

The screening is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 24 at 7 p.m.

The documentary, directed by Raoul Peck, is about writer James Baldwin and draws inspiration from Baldwin’s final but unfinished manuscript, “Remember This House.”

The narrative style of the documentary relies almost exclusively on Baldwin’s writings, read by Samuel L. Jackson.

The film also features documentary footage of police violence against black people in the 1960s juxtaposed against shots of similar violence today.

The screening will be followed by an open-ended conversation with novelist Russell Banks, Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, and David Goodman. His brother Andrew Goodman was one of three young civil rights activists murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” in 1964.

The screening is free and open to the public and seating will be on a first come first serve basis. Donations are appreciated.

Lake Flower Landing is at 421 Lake Flower Avenue in Saranac Lake.

For more information, contact Martha Swan of John Brown Lives! at 518-744-7112 or Peter Seward of Lake Flower Landing at 917-887-7149.

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