Film club to show civil-rights doc

Movies That Matter Beacon will screen the Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, at First Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23.

James Baldwin in a scene from “I Am Not Your Negro” (Photo by Dan Budnik)

The film draws connections between the history of the civil-rights movement and Black Lives Matter. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, it is based in part on an unfinished book by James Baldwin. See moviesthatmatterbeacon.org.

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