The Black Power Mix Tape Screening
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Submitted by Knight0440 on Fri, 2014-02-21 08:40
Date/Time:
Sun, 2/23 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
The Black Power Mix Tape Screening
Sunday, February 23, 2014
6:00PM
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
6:00PM
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of “showing the country as it really is.” Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled by Goran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage, featuring never-before seen interviews with Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver and others that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era.
"ESSENTIAL VIEWING for anyone concerned with our nation’s history - and its present."
David Fear, Time Out New York
"Reaches beyond received wisdom into the difficult and contradictory truth of the time."
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"ESSENTIAL VIEWING for anyone concerned with our nation’s history - and its present."
David Fear, Time Out New York
"Reaches beyond received wisdom into the difficult and contradictory truth of the time."
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
