The writer James Baldwin set out to write a book about three of his friends involved in the US civil rights struggle, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, and Medgar Evers — all assassinated. However, not much of the book had been written by the time of Baldwin’s death in the late 80s, so director Raoul Peck uses what Baldwin left as a springboard to what could have been. Great archival footage (and narration by Samuel L. Jackson) makes this a fascinating look at how far and how little civil rights in the US have come.
