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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.

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.

The Black Power Mixtape Is A Documentary, First Of All. It Brings Us Closer To The Voices We Heard At That Particular Point In Time.

Remember, We're Talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] About 1967, The Year Before [martin Luther] King's Assassination. We're Talking About The Emergence Of Black Power, Which Is A Discussion King Mentioned In His Last Book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos Or Community? We're Talking About The Meaning Of Black Power And The Possibility That It Alienated Our Supporters, Both White And Black.

Im A Child Of The Civil Rights Movement.