May 19, 2013

Talib Kweli, Angela Davis Talk PBS’ ‘Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975’

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*On Thursday (Feb. 9), PBS will premiere “Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975,” a documentary that follows America’s black power movement and features interviews with many of its major players – including Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis, Eldridge Cleaver and Elaine Brown. Armed with 16 millimeter cameras, Swedish television journalists flew to America in the mid-60s to document [...]




Audio: Angela Davis Critical, Yet Supportive of Obama

Author/activist Angela Davis speaks onstage during the Independent Lens Examines Black History Month panel during the PBS portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on Jan. 5, 2012 in Pasadena

*Activist and university professor Angela Davis – the former Communist Party associate and Black Panther Party member whose afro and raised fist alone personifies the black power movement of the 60s and 70s –  says she isn’t 100 percent satisfied with the current occupant of the White House. “Of course there are critiques that I would [...]