Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 2021

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

Cast

Stevie Wonder

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Chris Rock

Tony Lawrence

Nina Simone

B.B. King

Abbey Lincoln

Mavis Staples

Mahalia Jackson

David Ruffin

Sly Stone

Hugh Masekela

John V. Lindsay

Ray Barretto

Herbie Mann

Mongo Santamaría

Questlove

Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Walter Cronkite

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy

Richard Nixon

John F. Kennedy

Jesse Jackson

Moms Mabley

Max Roach

Fidel Castro

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