Summer of Soul with Ahmir ”Questlove” Thompso...

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Director Alex Stapleton discusses her new film, The Brittney Griner Story, with fellow Director Laura Belsey in a Q&A at the DGA theater in New York. In the conversation, she discusses her process of shooting master interviews first to find a foundation for her story, interviewin ...  Show more

Summer of Soul revives the forgotten, groovy history of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, a pivotal moment in Black culture sometimes dubbed “Black Woodstock.” This massive concert series spanned multiple weekends and featured everyone from Sly and the Family Stone to Nina Simon ...  Show more

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer and cofounder of The Roots, discusses his documentary "Summer of Soul," which explores the cultural significance of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com ...  Show more

There were two big music festivals happening in the summer of 1969. While one defined an entire generation of culture and music... the other remained obscure — the only recorded footage placed in a basement that was said to have sat, unpublished, for decades. That is, until Quest ...  Show more

Fresh from his Oscar’s nomination, Zane chats to Questlove about his documentary ‘Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)’, the significance of 1969, ‘code switching’ of black artists, how the festival was almost erased from history and teases his new S ...  Show more