Ce documentaire raconte l'histoire du Harlem Cultural Festival qui s'est tenu à New York en 1969 en parallèle du festival de Woodstock et dont personne n'a jamais entendu parler. Le festival avait pourtant réuni 300.000 personnes pour une série de concerts donnés par des artistes majeurs comme Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, B.B. King ou encore Sly and the Family Stone.
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00:00Are you ready black people?
00:02Are you ready?
00:04Are you really ready?
00:06Are you ready?
00:08Are you ready to listen to all the beautiful black voices,
00:10the beautiful black feelings,
00:12the beautiful black waves
00:14moving in beautiful air?
00:16Are you ready black people?
00:18Are you ready?
00:20Nobody ever heard of the
00:22Harlem Culture Festival.
00:24Nobody would believe it happened.
00:26Six weekends with major artists.
00:36The Panthers were the security
00:38and kids were sitting up on the trees.
00:40I was nervous.
00:42I didn't expect a crowd like that.
00:44Something very important was happening.
00:46It wasn't just about the music.
00:481969 was a change of era
00:50in the black community.
00:52The styles were changing.
00:54Music was changing.
00:56A revolution was coming together.
00:58We are a new people.
01:00We are a beautiful people.
01:04That concert took my life
01:06from black and white into color.
01:12We wanted progress.
01:14We are black people and we should be proud of this.
01:16We were coming together to say
01:18this was our world
01:20and how beautiful it was.
01:22We're going to try to sing a song together.
01:24Don't wait for your neighbor
01:26because your neighbor might be waiting for you.
01:32We believed in what we felt in here.
01:34So when we went up,
01:36let's go.
01:38Let's go do it.
01:40Let's go do it.
01:42Let's go do it.
01:44Let's go.
01:46Let's go do it.