The film combines music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars. Released: 2011 Directed by: Göran Olsson 57 A Huey P. Newton Story...
Amidst racial tensions and violence, the brave activists fight for their right to vote, ultimately leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. This poignant film serves as a timeless reminder that progress often requires great sacrifice and courageous individuals who stand up against injus...
movement, by then militant Black activists had begun to see their struggle as a freedom or liberation movement not just seeking civil rights reforms but instead confronting the enduring economic, political, and culturalconsequencesof past racial oppression....
the 1830s, free Blackcommunitiesin the Northern states had become sufficiently large and organized to hold regular national conventions, where Black leaders gathered to discussalternativestrategies of racial advancement. In 1833 a small minority of whites joined with Black antislavery activists to form ...
Their influence created many prominent groups in the 60s against mistreatment of African Americans, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). According to the name of this group, they were a nonviolent team of young black activists that stemmed from MLK’s Southern Christian ...
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975: Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson. With Abiodun Oyewole, Stokely Carmichael, Talib Kweli, Mable Carmichael. Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edit
Recently, Juanita chatted with me over the phone and explained how Geniece’s story related to her real life as a Panther. Top: From left, black activists T.C. Williams, Judy Hart (now Judy Juanita), Ron Bridgeforth, and Jo Ann Mitchell at San Francisco State Universit...
These women are politicians and activists who fought for everyone’s human rights, educators who taught us our history and how to think bigger, writers who captured our experiences, style innovators, civil rights leaders who paved the way for us to have a brighter future and entertainers who ...
Directed by Spike Lee, this 1997 documentary tells the story of the four girls while using archival footage, home movies, and interviews with government officials and civil rights activists to weave in important historical context. Watch Now Advertisement - Continue Reading Below 9 Straight Outta Com...
Civil Rights Leaders and Activists Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Black Americans have advocated for civil rights since the earliest days of the United States. Leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X are two of the best-known civil rights leaders of the 20th century. Others...