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Summer of Soul review – thrilling documentary reveals a forgotten festival – The Guardian

Revelatory footage from the 1969 Harlem Cultural festival, crudely known for a while as the Black Woodstock, is brought to life in a spectacular new film

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Theres a moment so striking and rich with power at the center of Ahmir Questlove Thompsons Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) that, while watching it, I actually forgot to breathe. It comes as Mavis Staples completes singing her section of the gospel song Take My Hand, Precious Lord. The audience is a packed Harlem park of almost exclusively African Americans who have just heard Dr Martin Luther King eulogized by a man who witnessed his assassination merely one year…

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