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Black revolution of the Sixties revisited via Swedish Collage
kam Williams
Special to The Skanner News
During
the
Black
Power
Movement back in the Sixties and
Seventies, most folks only got to
know its leaders by way of sound
bites disseminated by the mass
media. Whether it was Stokely
Carmichael’s demand “We want
black power!” or H. Rap Brown’s
appeal for riots via “Burn baby
burn!” or Eldridge Cleaver’s
assertion that “You’re either part
of the problem or part of the
solution,” the icons were mostly
reduced to incendiary slogans for
the purposes of entertainment
masquerading as news.
But I bet you didn’t know that
Stokely was also a momma’s boy
born in Trinidad. Or that Angela
Davis was from Birmingham,
Ala., where her family was close
friends with those of the four little
girls slaughtered in the Baptist
SUB BIDS REQUESTED
church bombing in September of
1963, a couple of weeks after the
historic March on Washington.
These are the sort of intimate
aspects of African-American lumi-
naries’ lives explored in The Black
Power Mixtape 1967-1975, an
eye-opening documentary direct-
ed by Goran Olsson. His enlight-
ening cinematic collage was
culled from found 16mm film of
vintage interviews conducted by
fellow Swedish journalists with
movie so moving are the original
tete-a-tetes probing the psyches of
its freedom-loving subjects.
everyone from Black Panthers
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton to
radical attorney William Kunstler.
The archival footage has been
augmented here with current-day
voiceover commentaries by the
likes of Danny Glover, Erykah
Badu, Harry Belafonte, Melvin
Van Peebles and Talib Kweli, and
features an appropriately-sweet
Hip-Hop/R&B soundtrack scored
by Questlove and Om’Mas Keith.
Nonetheless, what makes the
Excellent (4 stars)
Unrated
English and Swedish with
subtitles
Running time: 100 Min
Studio: Sundance Selects
Bids/classifieds
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Wastewater Treatment Facilities
Relocation
Bid Date: Sept 16, 2011 @ 2:00 pm
NATT
MCDOUGALL
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Phone: 503-783-0620
Fax: 503-783-0626
20182 SW 112th Avenue
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