I Am Not Your Negro: Social Justice Sunday Matinee

SOCIAL JUSTICE SUNDAY MATINEE - $6 JOIN Women of Impact - Oakland at Impact at Impact Hub Oakland + Spectrum Queer Media for a "Social Justice Sunday Matinee" screening of I Am Not Your Negro. “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - American novelist James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote in the New York (NY) Times on January 14, 1962 I Am Not Your Negro, nominated for a Best Documentary at the Academy Awards, is a vital collage of archival material and a voice-over based on Baldwin’s sage and particularly timely words. The current Trumpian world that we are now facing has roots in the same struggle for human rights that author James Baldwin discussed in black and white - over 30 years ago - with stunning precision. As Baldwin says, this is not history. It is the present. This film — trenchant, forceful, and heartbreaking — is necessary for the evolution of our species. TICKETS: $6 TICKETING WEBSITE: http://www.renaissancerialto.com Purchase your tickets directly through the Grand Lake Theater website or at the theater ticket booth (3200 Grand Ave. Oakland CA). POST SCREENING DISCUSSION: Our sQm + WOI "Social Justice Sunday Matinee" screening will be followed by an interactive community discussion at 440 Grand Ave - Perch Coffeehouse. In this relaxed atmosphere, we (a beautiful mix of artists, students, parents, business owners, educators, service providers, artivsts and more) - each possessing a particular perspective of this human rights work - will continue to create connection and build our combined revolution. A 2 hour conversation/workshop with and for white-identified people will also take place at a location TBD. MORE ABOUT THE FILM: I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO 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. THE GRAND LAKE THEATER IS ADA ACCESSIBLE Please be mindful of scent-sensitivities and make an effort to arrive sans perfumes, colognes and other scents. #buildingtogether #buildthewe #womenlead, #themovementofALL #radicalbelonging #radicalinquiry #womenbuildbridges ABOUT WOMEN of IMPACT Women Of Impact is a project of the Womens Creative Entrepreneurship & Equity Institute at Impact Hub Oakland that brings together women who are emerging leaders, established entrepreneurs, successful businesswomen, intrapreneurs, non-profit leaders, investors, professionals and creatives. More Here - https://oakland.impacthub.net/wceei/ ABOUT SPECTRUM Queer Media + Social Justice Sunday Matinees: sQm Media established Social Justice Sunday Matinees in 2012. Weekly sQm Social Justice Sunday Matinee screenings (accompanied by sQm curated community conversations, panels, exhibits and performances) unfolded via Kin Folkz first at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland CA then expanded to other U.S. theaters. www.SpectrumQueerMedia.com Hosted by: Monica Anderson Dori Koll Angela Sevin and Ashara Ekundayo Women of Impact - Oakland SPECTRUM Queer Media