The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975) is one of the most important movies I’ve watched in a long time. The film reminded me of how badly the government sought to undermine the dignity of the African American people. From COINTELPRO to flooding the center cities with drugs and guns the social experiment of integration was purposely a nightmare.
The film was over 40 years in the making from Swedish documentarians who were keenly following the AmeriKKKan experience right before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. You will see the humanity of people whom we only knew previously as militants or rebels. If you want to see the social conditions which created the need for Hip-Hop then you have to peep this flick.