Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The

A fascinating, informative documentary, which is a collection of 16mm footage shot by several Swedish journalists in the United States between 1967 and 1975, that focuses on the rise of the Black Power Movement and covers such topics as the bus boycotts in the late 1960s, the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, the Attica Prison riots, and the Angela Davis trial through activist commentary by musicians (such as Ahmir ‘Questlove' Thompson, John Forté, Erykah Badu, and Talib Kweli), singer Harry Belafonte, Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, poets Abiodun Oyewole and Sonia Sanchez, professors (such as Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, and Robin Keller), filmmakers Melvin Van Peebles and Emile de Antonio, and producer Kenny Gamble and interviews with SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther Party Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, TV Guide editor Merrill Panitt, Black Panther Party member Elaine Brown, attorneys Dennis Roberts and Gerald B. Lefcourt, and writer Lewis H. Michaux.
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