Slideshow: The Black Power Movement Through Swedish Lens
Unknown children playing in the street in Harlem, New York in 1974, an image from The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, directed by Göran Olsson. (Photo: Anders Ribbsjö/IFC Films)
A documentary film on the US Black Power movement during the 1960s and 70s premieres Friday.
It is called “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.”
The documentary offers a unique perspective on the movement from a Swedish point of view.
In 1967, Ingris Dahlberg, then a 26-year-old Swedish television journalist, decided to make a documentary on Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael after she heard him speaking at the University of Stockholm.
Dahlberg and her crew came to the US to interview Carmichael and follow him and other Black Power leaders around the US.
That archival footage is now compiled by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson in the documentary film.
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