Philip French 

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 – review

The African American civil rights movement from Martin Luther King to Nixon is the subject of this fascinating documentary, writes Philip French
  
  

A still from the documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. Photograph: PR

This fascinating documentary brings together material shot by Swedish documentarists and TV journalists dealing with the African American civil rights movement from the time of Martin Luther King's death to the fall of Nixon, accompanied by recently recorded voiceover commentaries. Among the latter are that remarkable survivor Angela Davis, the film-maker Melvin Van Peebles, Kathleen Cleaver (onetime wife of Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice) and Harry Belafonte. Most younger viewers will require more context for both parts of the film than Olsson provides.

 

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