THE BLACK POWER MIX TAPE 67-75
FURTHER READING
At the end of the '60s and into the early '70s, European interest in the US Civil Rights Movement and the US anti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naiveté, Swedish filmmakers traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power Movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the US media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement. Despite the obstacles they were confronted with, both from the conservative white American power establishment and from radicalized Movement members themselves, the Swedish filmmakers did not cease their investigation and ultimately formed bonds with key figures in the Movement, based on their common objective of realizing equal rights for all.
In the Black Power Mixtape filmmaker Göran Olsson brings this newly discovered footage to light and introduces it to a new generation across the world in a penetrating examination – through the lens of Swedish filmmakers – of the Black Power Movement from 1967-75, and its worldwide resonance.
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Featuring
Angela Davis: political activist, professor and author
Huey P. Newton: political activist, co-found Black Power Movement
Harry Belafonte: singer, recording artist, actor and activist
Kathleen Cleaver: Communications Secretary, Black Panther Party, professor
Bobby Seale: Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
Erykah Badu: recording artist
Robin Kelley: professor, author
John Forté: recording artist The Fugees
Talib Kweli: hip-hop recording artist
Melvin Van Peebles: actor, director
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson: music producer, DJ, drummer for The Roots
Sonia Sanchez: poet, professor, associated with the Black Arts Movement
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