Democracy Is About Criticism.

You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality.

The Black Power Mixtape Is A Documentary, First Of All. It Brings Us Closer To The Voices We Heard At That Particular Point In Time.

There Are Things That Make Me Excited About What I'm Doing: Trouble The Water [the 2008 Documentary Glover Executive Produced] On New Orleans, Or Something Like Soundtrack For A Revolution, About The Power Of The Music Of The Civil Rights Movement [which He Executive Produced In 2009]. Or Bamako, About The African Debt Crisis, A Platform To Discuss The Experience Of People Who Actually Live It. All Of These Are Important Ways We Can Use Film As A Forum Inviting People Into A Dialogue.

Im A Child Of The Civil Rights Movement.

I Was Able To Do To Sleep With Anger, A Very Powerful Film About African Americans, Their Spirituality, And The Things That Happened Within A Small Community And A Family.