Sentences with phrase «black power movement»

Those contexts — of American military interventions; dictatorships in Brazil, Chile, and elsewhere; and the rise of Black Power movements around the world — inspired artists like Anna Maria Maiolino and Victoria Santa Cruz, two of the most compelling creators in the show, to radicalize modern art to political ends.

Black panthers, emblems of the American black power movement of the 1960s, and azabache, stones carved into fists and worn in Latin American cultures to protect from evil spirits, are embedded in the painted cloth.

Many blaxploitation films take this same storyline as positive reinforcement of the late 1960s Black Power movement.

Given how badly they were outnumbered and outgunned, anything but love would have served them terribly — as the fates of many elements of the more militant Black Power movement can attest.

Simpson came of age in the 1980s, a generation after Civil Rights and Black Power movements marked by the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism.

It probably never occurred to most students of the American black power movement that they should know more about the Swedish outlook on Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis.

Two sets of her work are on view in mother's tankstation's booth; the first is a set of large paintings each titled What It Is (a reference to the phrase «what it is, what it was, and what it shall be,» a greeting popularized by the 1960s Black Power movement) made by covering the floor of her small studio with raw linen before covering herself with black ink and walking around to create expressive reinterpretations of both David Hammons and Yves Klein body prints.

When many people think of Obama's religious experience in Chicago, though, they cite his exposure to the angry sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and «black liberation theology,» a movement that emerged in the late 1960s and blended the Social Gospel with the black power movement.

Cone blended the racial pride of the black power movement with an emphasis on social justice that had been a part of the black church since enslaved Africans first read the Bible.

The timing of Cone's book is to be explained by the rise of the Black Power movement out of, and in reaction to, Martin Luther King's civil rights struggle.

This was the point of the «Black is beautiful» slogan of the Black Power movement in the «60s in America and the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa.

Still, it was only later, with the advent of the Black Power movement and the coming of black theology, that I began to take seriously what the modern American city meant to African - Americans.

Jewish identification has been reinforced by the influence of the black power movement, the ethnic revival in America and the surfacing of national - cultural - religious separatist movements throughout the world.

The Black Power movement was a crucial expression of this shift.

Editorials rarely revealed an appreciation for, or understanding of, the contribution of the black power movement to the ultimate success of the civil rights movement.

«I came up during the early «60s and the civil rights and black power movement,» said Clark, a venerable figure known for his dapper wardrobe, which this day includes a white Ascot cap and a polka - dot hankie in the breast - pocket of his velvet jacket.

The result is a film that doesn't chart the rise and fall of the black power movement, and viewers unfamiliar with civil rights history will likely be lost.

All of which forms a narrative of the black power movement from hope to resistance to persecution to repression to defeat, symbolized in epidemic drug abuse.

Director Göran Olsson and co-producer Danny Glover bring this footage to light in a mosaic of images, music and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement.

This hard - boiled cop is ruthless in his quest to stop the black power movement in its tracks and his tactics are heavy - handed and seemingly have no bounds.

Granted, I'm already interested, so I found it fascinating, but one can't deny that the Black Power movement was a vital part of modern American history.

What we get here is a compilation of hours and hours of footage shot by a group of Swedish new reporters who were fascinated by the Black Power movement, and traveled all over the U.S. and other places to document what was going on.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 / Sweden, U.S.A. (Director: Göran Olsson)-- From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America.

For the most part, though, this documentary is worth watching because of the vintage footage, and because someone thought to capture on film almost all of the principal figures of the Black Power movement of the late «60s and early «70s.

As you watch film about the Attica prison riots, which may have been touched off by a racial incident, the segment goes on way too long and seems to stray from the notion of a Black Power movement.

How, again, does it relate to the Black Power movement?

It's a brave, unofficial and impressionistic history of the Black Power movement that America at one point tried to suppress — an informal history that could only be told by outsiders.

There are so many press conferences and visits to Sweden that you begin to realize that this nation completely supported the Black Power movement, at least in spirit.

Right up front, «The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 75» lets us know the film isn't meant to be a definitive cinematic history of the black power movement.

Swedish TV developed something of a fetish for America's black power movement; its reporters crisscrossed America, visiting the still - segregated South; Black Panther headquarters in Oakland, Calif.; Harlem; and Angela Davis in prison.

By taking a journalistic approach from outside the USA, this film helps us see the turbulent events surrounding the Black Power movement in a new light.

Framing the unfinished work as a radical narration about race in America, Peck matches Baldwin's lyrical rhetoric with rich archival footage of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and connects these historical struggles for justice and equality to the present - day movements that have taken shape in response to the killings of young African - American men including Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, and Amir Brooks.

But with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s spilling over into the Black Power movement and anti-racism riots of the 1970s, one Marvel employee felt that just shunting the Panther into a slot with Earth's Mightiest Heroes wasn't enough.

Later episodes include snippets of reports on burgeoning heroin use and wary Swedish tourists, both in Harlem — anecdotal glimpses that are hardly enough to frame and explain the loss of fervor in the black power movement as U.S. troops prepared to leave Vietnam and Richard Nixon struggled to stay in the White House.

Created by John Ridley (American Crime), the six - episode limited series will take place against the backdrop of the Black Power movement in the 1970s.

Lee and his muscular artist - collaborator, Jack Kirby, feeling the vibes from the Black Is Beautiful and Black Power movements, envisioned him as a chiseled genius - shaman - warrior who is magnetically commanding both in and out of his big - cat suit.

The Blackpower Mixtape 1967 - 1975 / Sweden, U.S.A. (Director: Göran Olsson)-- From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicled the Black Power movement in America.

Seberg, the darling of the French New Wave era, became romantically and politically involved with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (to be played by Anthony Mackie) and became a target of the FBI for her part in the Black Power movement of the 1960s.

I got to meet Kathleen Cleaver, and talked to all these incredible women of the Black Panther and Black Power movements.

Most were created during an earlier time of African - American empowerment: the black power movement and the blaxploitation movie genre of the 1960s and 70s.

Like much of the New Left, the antibureaucrats were more enthralled by the Black Power movement than by the nonviolent, explicitly Christian, civil rights movement.

The lyrics of soul maintained the topics of romance and social relationships and expanded topical coverage to include social and political commentary inspired by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.

«Unlike most of the other contenders on this list, David Hammons — much of whose work reflects his devotion to Civil Rights and the Black Power movement — has kept the art world at arm's length for most of his career, in part by refusing to join a commercial gallery.»

As a new generation of scholars, curators, and collectors gains interest in works produced during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, overlooked artists such as Williams are being considered anew and benefitting from overdue recognition.

This digital archive of the 2011 — 2012 exhibition examines the legacy of African - American artists in L.A., many of whom were connected to civil rights and Black Power movements.