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Independent Lens | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 | Clip 2 | PBS

Duration: 02:36
Program: Independent Lens #1314

www.itvs.org Premiering February 9, 2012. Check local listings: www.pbs.org A 1968 speech by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver sets the stage for a contemporary reaction by singer Erykah Badu about how African American self-defense and community empowerment was depicted by the mainstream media and politicians as acts of radical aggression. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. Combining startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years, with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, this film looks at the people, society, culture, and style that fuelled an era of convulsive change. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a cinematic and musical journey into the black communities of America. At the end of the '60s and into the early '70s, Swedish 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 encountered, both from the conservative white American power ...

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Post Date: January 30, 2012