Review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in cinemas and in the home. Far and away the most important and uplifting new release this week is summer of soul, questlove s Sundance Award winning documentary that uncovers a Treasure Trove of footstomping, heart stopping live Music Footage that, incredibly, has remained hidden for half a century. Are you ready, black people . Crowd . , are you really ready . Ready are you ready to listen to all the beautiful black voices, the beautiful black feeling, the beautiful black waves moving in beautiful air . Are you ready, black people . Are you ready . Documenting the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that has until now been effectively erased from Pop Culture history, summer of soul boasts a jaw dropping roster of acts who performed in Mount Morris Park over six consecutive weekends including stevie wonder, Nina Simone, sly and the family stone, Gladys Knight and the pips, bb king, the Fifth Dimension and ma
When Neil Armstrong takes One Small Step for a man, the concertgoer reacts by stating, never mind the moon, lets get some of that Cash In Harlem a sentiment echoed by the reverend jesse jackson. The fact that no One was interested in this historic footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival for so long stands as evidence of the whitewashing of american history, a subject that seems particularly pertinent at the moment. Plaudits, then, to director ahmir thompson, aka musician questlove, who begins and ends his film with a Festival Goer reviewing the newly uncovered footage for the first time, and then tearfully thanking the Film Maker for proving to him that he isnt crazy this really happened. We wanted progress. We are black people and we should be proud of this. We were coming together to say this is our world, and how beautiful it was. Thanks to this terrific film, Thats Something we can all share in. I can take you higher. We believed in what we felt in here. Just go do it summer of sou
Far and away the most important and uplifting new release this week is summer of Soul, Questloves Sundance Award winning documentary that uncovers a Treasure Trove of footstomping, heart stopping live Music Footage that, incredibly, has remained hidden for half a century. Are you ready, black people . Crowd ready are you really ready . Ready are you ready to listen to all the beautiful black voices, the beautiful black feeling, the beautiful black waves moving in beautiful air . Are you ready, black people . Are you ready . Documenting the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that has until now been effectively erased from Pop Culture history, summer of Soul boasts a jaw dropping roster of acts who performed in Mount Morris Park over six consecutive weekends including stevie wonder, Nina Simone, sly and the family stone, Gladys Knight and the pips, bb king, the Fifth Dimension and many, many more. Nobody ever heard of the harlem culture festival. Nobody would believe that happened. The acts a
President of the asian american foundation and former Deputy Assistant to president obama, along with jerry yang, founding Board Member of this new foundation, as well as cofounder of yahoo . Welcome to you both. Tracy thank you sonal thank you, tracy. Jerry thanks. Tracy lets start with you, sonal. You have talked about the importance of addressing antiasian hate and belonging. Give us an overview of what led to the formation of the asian american foundation. Sonal well, you know, in 2020, we saw a spike in incidents against asian american Website And Jonathan greenblatt, the ceo of the Antidefamation League came to our board now to say theres a lot happening here. What are you all going to do and our board chair, lee lou, said we have to do something, and called jerry, called joe and they decide to create the asian decided to create the asian american foundation because they knew it was an important time to do this and this was a moment to bring everybody together to really look at t