The San Antonio African American Community Archive & Museum’s excellent Black History film series will continue this Friday with the revelatory documentary The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975.
Taken from 16mm footage that was lost and rediscovered during the 1990s in the cellar of a Swedish television station, the doc intercuts the bracing original footage with interviews and commentary from some of the most notable Black Panthers of the era, including Kwame Ture, Angela Davis and Huey P. Newton.
The film, which will screen at the Little Carver Civic Center, is divided into segments such as COINTELPRO, the Vietnam War and the War on Drugs, creating a succinct overview of a tumultuous and ever-relevant period in American history.
Free with reservation, 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, Little Carver Civic Center, 226 N. Hackberry St., (210) 207-7211, thecarver.org.
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