One of the most powerful chapters in the film The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,
involves a jailhouse interview with activist Angela Davis. In her full-blown afro
and 1970s-style she's visibly frustrated as she tells a Swedish television interviewer
why some black people had chosen to take up arms in the face of police harassment
and racism. In her own words she explains how her family was terrorized by bombings
in the south. It's a strong, stirring moment brought to us in living color, and one of
the things that makes Black Power Mixtape an important movie about, not only black
history, but world history. The film has already appeared at this year's Cannes Film
Festival. It's a documentary that pulls together footage shot by a Swedish television
crew investigating U.S. black culture and the Civil Rights movement between 1967
and 1975.The original television footage used to make the piece was found by chance
by filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson. Commentary by hip-hop stars and black intellectuals
help tie the storyline together.
WATCH THE TRAILER FOR 'THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE' HERE
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