I’ve been waiting for the release of this film since I saw the trailer. I just can’t get enough of 60′s and 70′s footage of the Black Power Movement. The film is set to be released this Friday September 9th.. check below for more info.

Official Site

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

PREMIERED AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011, WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY EDITING AWARD

The Black Power Mixtape is compilation feature documentary film that displays the story of the African-American community 1967-1975, the people, the society and the style that fueled a change. Told with sparkling, beautiful and deep footage, lost in the archives in Sweden for 30 years.

“-Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been. Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
Well of course there’s been a great deal of progress. We don’t have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.”
Angela Davis

Production facts

Writen and Directed by: Göran Hugo Olsson
Produced by: Annika Rogell, Story AB

Co-Produced by: Joslyn Barnes & Danny Glover, Louverture Films

Music produced by Ahmir Khalib Questlove Thompson
Executive producer Corey Smyth for Blacksmith Corp
Featuring music by The Roots and Michael Jackson.
And singing by Erykah Badu

Art Director: Stefania Malmsten

Edited by: Göran Hugo Olsson & Hanna Lejonqvist

Including appearances by:
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, Angela Davis

Including commentary voice by:
Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, Questlove