The Black Power Mixtape 1967 1975-Video clips w Graphics/Image Captures
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In the late '60s, after the assassination of both Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement in America gave
way to a more militant breed of activists who were demanding
greater self-determination for the African-American
community and the right to defend themselves against a
system they felt was stacked against them. A number of
journalists for Swedish television were fascinated with the rise
of the Black Panther Party and the larger Black Power
movement, and on several occasions sent film crews to the
United State to interview major figures in the African-American
militant community. Filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson has used
some of this archival footage as the basis for the documentary
The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, which includes vintage
interviews with Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P.
Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Louis Farrakhan, and
other key figures in the Black Power movement. The newsreels
are accompanied by recent interviews with
artists, activists, and cultural historians who discuss this
volatile period in American history, including Harry
Belafonte, Abiodun Oyewole, Melvin Van Peebles, and many
others. The Black Power Mixtape was an official selection at the
2011 Sundance Film Festival.http://blackpowermixtape.com/