The story of Mariam Makeba, a South African singer and crusader against apartheid, with a look at her life, career, and activism through the lens of archival footage.
Having spent years surrounding herself with white middle class culture filmmaker Isis Thompson asks herself why making a film about her cousin 60s Black radical Stokely Carmichael is such a battle ...
Gordon Parks quietly photographed Stokely Carmichael, leader of the grassroots ... He removed stereotypes to show the possibilities of the human spirit, even when it was brutalized.