THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE Gets A Full Trailer

Up until now we've largely had to content ourselves with small snippets of Goran Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975. Compiled from recently rediscovered footage shot from within the Black Power movement of the late sixties and early seventies the film has won raves on the festival circuit and should be absolutely essential viewing for pretty much anyone who wants to understand where America has come from.

THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring candid interviews with the movement's most explosive revolutionary minds, including Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and Kathleen Cleaver, the film explores the community, people and radical ideas of the movement. Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from and modern voices including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles give the historical footage a fresh sound and make THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-75 an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.

If you've ever found yourself becoming irritated with how black people are presented in Hollywood, you need to see and support this film when it comes out in limited release on September 9th. Something this authentic is a rarity and the fact that it had to come to America via Sweden is a telling indictment on how the American media chooses to present - or, for anyone who isn't white, not present - its own people.