The World Is Dealing With Issues Of

The Progressive Movement Against The War Of Occupation In Iraq Is A Reason For Hope, As Is Resistance To Free Trade Agreements In Latin America. Those Are Moments That We Have To Celebrate: That People Still Find The Resolve And Energy To Resist

Freedom Summer, The Massive Voter Education Project In Mississippi, Was 1964. I Graduated From High School In 1965. So Becoming Active Was Almost A Rite Of Passage.

The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On. So You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality. All These Things Gave Rise To The Black Power Movement. The Black Power Movement Was Not A Separation From The Civil Rights Movement, But A Continuation Of This Whole Process Of Democratization.

There Are Things That Make Me Excited About What I'm Doing: Trouble The Water [the 2008 Documentary Glover Executive Produced] On New Orleans, Or Something Like Soundtrack For A Revolution, About The Power Of The Music Of The Civil Rights Movement [which He Executive Produced In 2009]. Or Bamako, About The African Debt Crisis, A Platform To Discuss The Experience Of People Who Actually Live It. All Of These Are Important Ways We Can Use Film As A Forum Inviting People Into A Dialogue.

In The Black Power Mixtape , You Hear The Voice Of Angela Davis - Not Someone Playing Angela Davis.