The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975

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Featuring images recently discovered in the archives of Swedish television, The Black Power Mixtape shows the Black Power movement as never seen before. Powerful interviews with key figures, such as Stokely Carmichel, Angela Davis and others who shaped the struggle are mixed with the contemporary reflections of leading activists, musicians and scholars, expanding on the legacy of Black Power. Featuring fascinating and rare photos throughout, the Black Power Mixtape was described by the New York Times as an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research."

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Danny Glover: Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a presence on screen and television for more than 25 years. As an actor, his film credits range from the Lethal Weapon franchise to smaller independent features, some of which Glover also produced, as he did The Black Power Mixtape film. Gran Olsson: Born in Sweden in 1965, Gran Olsson studied film at university and art school in Stockholm and subsequently worked as a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. The Black Power Mixtape is his third feature film. Angela Davis: Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Davis was a political prisoner and is now a world-renowned scholar and author of Are Prisons Obsolete Stokely Carmichel: Stokely Carmichel (1941-1998), later known as Kwame Ture, was a civil rights activist prominent in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committing (SNCC). Carmichel later coined the phrase "Black Power," publishing a book of the same name with Charles Hamilton in 1967.