Where were you on July 20, 1969? Unless you were among the thousands fortunate enough to have been in Mount Morris Park for the opening of the Harlem Cultural Festival, chances are you were glued to a television set witnessing another historical milestone: that was the Sunday on which man first walked on the moon. When Walter Cronkite mentioned the concert on the CBS Evening News, it was probably the last time the event was discussed in public. The footage sat in a basement for 50 years, apparently waiting for Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to come along and give the occasion its correct historical context and importance. Set against a giant mosaic backdrop, the lineup boasted such heavyweights as Sly and the Family Stone, Edwin Hawkins, Pops Staples and the Staple Singers, B.B. King, Gladys Knight and the synchronized saltations of her Pips, and Mongo Santamaria. A Temptations-free David Ruffin entered the “whistle range” with his four-octaves solo rendition of “My Girl,” wh
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