Calling all who identify as Black or of the African Diaspora! You’re invited to join the Tally BLUU Chapter for an in-person gathering at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee. We’ll be ingesting the documentary, “The Black Power Mixtape,  that examines the rise of the Black Power Movement in American Society from 1967 to 1975.

Come connect in community, share your voice, and help us build something meaningful together.

We look forward to seeing you there! For more information, email Fenix at  contact.fenixmoon@gmail.com

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 Swedish documentary film directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in the United States at that time, with appearances by Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and other activists, artists, and leaders central to the movement.

The documentary features the found footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists (discovered some 30 years later in the cellar of Swedish Television) overlaid with commentaries and interviews from leading contemporary African-American artists, activists, musicians, and scholars. Divided into 9 sections based chronologically on each successive year between 1967 and 1975, the film focuses on several topics and subjects relevant to the Black Power Movement including Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, the Black Panther Party, COINTELPRO, and the War on Drugs. The film documents these events with footage of individuals who were highly important to the movement including but not limited to Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey P. Newton.^[1] David Fear of Time Out New York referred to the film as “a time capsule of a turbulent era, essential viewing for anyone concerned with our nation’s history—and its present”.^[2]

The footage includes appearances by Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Louis Farrakhan, Emile de Antonio, Richard Nixon, Ingrid Dahlberg and Angela Davis who also provides contemporary voice commentary.

Additional contemporary voice commentaries are provided by Erykah Badu, Ahmir Questlove Thompson, who is also credited with scoring the music for the film along with Om’Mas Keith,^[1] Talib Kweli, Harry Belafonte, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, John Forté, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby Seale, Robin Kelley, Abiodun Oyewole and Melvin Van Peebles.^[3] Mark Jenkins of NPR has commented that the prominence of music artists rather than political activists who provide commentary throughout the film is “a sign of how African-American culture has shifted”.^[4]

Source: wikipedia