James Baldwin Explains 2017 America in the Transcendent I Am Not Your Negro

by Charles MudedeCrowd gathering at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington. COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES
The nominations for this year's Oscars include one important black cinematographer, Bradford Young (for Arrival), and two important black directors, Barry Jenkins (for Moonlight) and Raoul Peck (for I Am Not Your Negro). All three are brilliant artists, and were pretty much obscure until this year. What their nominations make clear is that this year's Oscars are doing more than jus