Baldwin100 Watches a film "From London"
Thursday, April 18, 2024 3:00 PM to 4:15 PM EDT
Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Room B, also goes by Room 326
Screening at 3pm:
Baldwin's abroad series features three films. This is the screening of the third one.
The film will be followed by a Q&A with professors Keith Clark and Leeya Mehta
Baldwin's N*****
1968, 46 minutes
“In this riveting short documentary by pioneering Trinidadian-British filmmaker Horace Ové, James Baldwin and comedian-activist Dick Gregory speak to a group of radical West Indian students in London about everything from the state of the civil rights movement to the perils of false consciousness. The provocative title, drawn from Baldwin’s words, refers to one of the painful realities of Black American identity: that even his name conjures a history of slavery. Restoration courtesy of the British Film Institute.”
