it was called the black woodstock. were some of the stars who played at the harlem cultural festival in new york. it was all filmed, but the footage was left to gather dust in a basement. now, the archives have been turned into an award winning movie. 0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. the summer of 1969. woodstock. neil armstrong walking on the moon. and more than 300,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival. are you ready, black people, are you ready? an event almost no one has heard of until now. six weekends of major artists. the panthers were the security and kids sitting in the trees. i was nervous. i didn't expect a crowd like that. something very important was happening. summer of soul is a documentary exploring why this event, which it argues could have become the black woodstock, has been ignored for more than half a century. the film is directed by questlove, who drums for hip—hop outfit the roots and is a professor at nyu, where he is an expert in black music history. but even h

it was called the black woodstock.e harlem cultural festival in new york. it was all filmed, but the footage was left to gather dust in a basement. now, the archives have been turned into an award—winning movie. 0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. the summer of 1969. woodstock. neil armstrong walking on the moon. and more than 300,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival. are you ready, black people, are you ready? an event almost no one has heard of until now. six weekends of major artists. the panthers were the security and kids sitting in the trees. i was nervous. i didn't expect a crowd like that. something very important was happening. summer of soul is a documentary exploring why this event, which it argues could have become the black woodstock, has been ignored for more than half a century. the film is directed by questlove, who drums for hip—hop outfit the roots and is a professor at nyu, where he is an expert in black music history. but even he hadn't heard of the festival. we're ta

it was called the black woodstock. gather dust in a basement. now, the archives have been turned into an award winning movie. our entertainment correspondent colin paterson reports. the summer of 1969. woodstock. neil armstrong walking on the moon. and more than 300,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival. are you ready, black people, are you ready? an event almost no one has heard of until now. six weekends of major artists. the panthers were the security and kids sitting in the trees. i was nervous. i didn't expect a crowd like that. something very important was happening. summer of soul is a documentary exploring why this event, which it argues could have become the black woodstock, has been ignored for more than half a century. the film is directed by questlove, who drums for hip—hop outfit the roots and is a professor at nyu, where he is an expert in black music history. but even he hadn't heard of the festival. we're talking about stevie wonder, nina simone, sly and the family stone, comedians, politicia

woodstock. >> it was just very, very beautiful.mances from the who, carlos santana, and jimi hendrix. >> woodstock comes out and suddenly all the facts that were on the festival were household names. >> reporter: while woodstock was hailed as a pivotal moment in popular culture, the harlem cultural festival was practically forgotten. ♪ ♪ calling to you ♪ >> the true lesson that i've learned from all this is that the term black erasure is real and not an exaggeration. this particular event wasn't allowed the same process, and it just sat in someone's basement for 50 years. my purpose was to correct history. >> reporter: it happened during a critical new era for black america. a time when pain gave way to purpose, progress, and defiance. >> you are having a younger generation sort of like the second generation of the civil rights movement that's more vocal, more demanding for justice and equal rights. so you have martin's era, the civil rights movement, which is more about peaceful protesting and a lot of patience in the face of bloo

woodstock. neil armstrong walking on the moon.an 300,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival. ♪ an event almost no one has heard of until now. >> major artists. kids were sitting on the trees. >> i was nervous. >> i did not expect a crowd like that. something very important was happening. reporter: the summer of soul is a documentary exploring why this event has been ignored for half a century. the film is directed by quest love, he drums for the roots and a professor at nyu where he is an expert in black music history. stephen he had not heard of the festival. >> need -- stevie wonder, sly and the family stone, comedians, politicians, everyone was there. it is preserved on tape, professionally. but once of happening is not one producer or outlet is interested. this film sits in the basement for 50 years. >> nobody ever heard of the harlem cultural festival. ♪ reporter: however, a couple of film professors managed to secure the rights and decided quest love was the man. >> it took me five mths of having monitors in my hou

and the summer of love that saw woodstock is certainly well documented. but what many people don't know about is the harlem cultural festival, a music extravaganza that took place that same summer and marked a turning point in black life in america. i'm mere quest love thompson, the drummer and co leader of the hip hop group. the roots has combined compiled previously unknown footage in the documentary films summer of sol. so let's hear his take on this extraordinary project. after the silky voice of nina symbol prairie black. yeah. are you really, really the beautiful voices, but the way moving and my name is amir request. love thompson. i'm a musician and a music lover. and we're here to celebrate in talk of my directory or they view summer of sol. nobody ever heard of them just as the phone. nobody would believe that have the beautiful people i was off. i got admitted. i've never heard of the cultural festival, my producers, robert and joseph to tell and david dinner scheme. they showed me their footage. this is real. i was no, i didn't expect crowds.

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she grew up in woodstock, new york, with a front row seat to music history. her third solo album released last month. she's perform some of that music in a moment. first, here is anthony mason. ♪ ♪ you got to trust me baby you can't rush this baby ♪ >>> amy helm has spent her life in music playing for a decade in her father, levon helm's, band. and also with the alt country group olabelle. in 2015 at age 44, she launched a solo career. was it scary going out on your own? >> oh, yeah yeah, it was terrifying. >> reporter: did you find stuff out about yourself in those moments? >> absolutely. >> reporter: what did you learn? >> you know, i learned to rely on my teachers and all those things that you've learned from my dad, from my jazz teacher in high school, from my band mates from olabelle, all different people that have influenced you and kind of comes in -- >> reporter: you hear their voices -- >> yeah, thank god, right? ♪ ♪ how long will it take ♪ >> reporter: helm recorded her latest album, "what the flood leaves behind," in the studio named for her father

while mike wadleigh's woodstock and the maysles brothers' gimme shelter have long been considered the definitive documents of the highs and lows of pop culture in �*69, summer of soul makes both look like a footnote to the main event — musically, politically, culturally. # it took me by surprise, i must say... from mavis staples and mahalia jackson performing doctor martin luther king's favourite song, take my hand, precious lord to nina simone unveiling a new composition inspired by the off—broadway stage show to be young, gifted and black, this is some of the most thrilling concert footage you'll ever see. # can't you hear me callin' to ya? astutely chosen newsreels put the performances in context, coming at the end of a decade of unrest and assassinations, with the war raging in vietnam and civil rights under attack at home. when neil armstrong takes one small step for a man, the concertgoer reacts by stating, "never mind the moon, let's get some "of that cash in harlem" — a sentiment echoed by the reverend jesse jackson. the fact that no one was interested in this historic footage

and the summer of love that saw woodstock is certainly well documented. but what many people don't know about is the harlem cultural festival, a music extravaganza that took place that same summer and marked a turning point in black life in america. i'm mere quest love thompson, the drummer and co leader of the hip hop group. the roots has combined compiled previously unknown footage in the documentary film, summer of sol. so let's hear his take on this extraordinary project. after the silky voice of nina symbol prairie black. yeah. are you really ready? the beautiful boy. the way moving and the my name is amir request. love thompson. i'm a musician and a music lover. and we're here to celebrate in talk of my directory all day due summer of sol. nobody ever heard of them called just at the phone. nobody would believe that half the beautiful people was bought. i got admitted i'd never heard of the problem. cultural festival. my producers is robert joseph patel and david dennis team. they showed me that this is real. i would know i didn't expect crowds like

and the summer of love that saw woodstock is certainly well documented. but what many people don't know about is the harlem cultural festival, a music extravaganza that took place that same summer and marked a turning point in black life in america. i'm mere quest love thompson, the drummer and co leader of the hip hop group. the roots has combined compiled previously unknown footage in the documentary film, summer of sol. so let's hear his take on this extraordinary project. after the silky voice of nina simone. read the black. yeah, this, are you really reading the beautiful voices with the way moving and beautiful? my name is amir request. love thompson. i am a musician and a music lover. and we're here to celebrate in talk of my directory or they view summer of sol. nobody ever heard of them. call it just as the full nobody would believe that happy beautiful people was bought. i got admitted i'd never heard of the harlem cultural festival. my producers is robert joseph hotel and david dennis team, they showed me that footage. this was real i didn't ex

. >>> we have all heard of woodstock 100 miles whale festival was taking place. summer of 1969, 300,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival over the course of six weeks. the footage of the festival has been locked into a basement until now. on the red carpets, karl schmid was at a special screening in los angeles. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it was a full house on the lawn of the greek theater for summer evening screening of dj qwest love's directorial debut, "summer of soul." what was the goal when you went in for this project? >> the goal for me was to be entertaining and educational. this actually alluded the world , even when it was presented to me, i was not sure it quite happened. >> it was not something i learned about in school curriculum, so i am really excited to learn more about it tonight. >> this was a healing moment for harlem in particular, which was pretty much burning up in flames after martin luther king was assassinated. >> what is it like watching your dad up on the stage in front of all of those people 52 years ago? >> i don't really have the w

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. >>> we've all heard of woodstock, but a little over 100 miles away, another festival was taking place0,000 people attended the harlem cultural festival over the course of six weeks. the footage of the festival was locked in the basement until now. on the red carpets, carl schmidt was at a special screening in la. >> reporter: it was a full house on the lawn of the theater, for summer evening streaming of dj questlove debut, summer of soul. >> what was the goal when you went in for this project? >> you know, the goal for me is to be entertaining and also to be educational. this actually eluded the world, maybe when it was presented to me, i wasn't sure that it quite happened. >> it wasn't something i learned about in school, and the school curriculum, i'm really excited to learn more tonight. >> this was a healing moment for harlem in particular who was pretty much burning up in flames after martin luther king was assassinated. >> so excited to see this piece of history that will live forever. >> but was like watching your dad up on this stage in front of all those people 52 years ago?

and in kabul, we have woodstock or are him. he is a conflict. peace and security expert art tillman cross talk rules and effect. that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate me go to scott, 1st, many of us watching this conflict for 2 decades expected this outcome was only the dates that mattered most here. made my introduction, i said, i call it in complete and utter failure. the american people are poor and no one is held account, and if no one has held account, scott, then it's going to happen again. go ahead. your thoughts, of course, is going to happen again. it's in the, it's in the d. n a or the united states. so when we intervene, we intervene using a american centered template that is designed to placate domestic political factions. here in the united states, not to solve problems overseas, we've seen this almost everywhere. united states intervenes afghanistan was doomed to fail from the start because we didn't respect your costume, tribal sensitivities, parts to wally and nothing. we didn't und

i know here you have a dual enrollment program, so students from places like woodstock high school and other high schools, you get credit for taking college classes here. well, my plan will provide resources to expand programs like the one you have your. my plan will also do more to invest in high-quality job training and apprenticeships and fast-growing sectors -- in fast-growing sectors like childcare and many fracturing, and information and technology, to get the skills that employers want that lead to good middle-class, and i make no apology, union jobs. also make strategic investments in teachers, and the teacher pipeline. before the pandemic, our school system was 100,000 teachers short here in america. particularly in high demand areas. our children are the kite strings that left our national ambitions aloft and our teachers are the ones that help them believe they can do anything. i bet everyone of you can name a teacher that help to succeed in life. i bet everyone of us, there's somebody that came along and made us believe in ourselves. that is the secret of teachers. my plan

dr. forests in the state of oregon lays also ready destroyed more than 400 square miles of woodstock is roughly the size of los angeles. more than 50 buildings, including homes, are being burnt to the ground around 2000 firefighters. you're trying to bring the situation under control thing in the country, 7 months after the u. s. election on there still wrangling over the result are as illness, senate republican recently hard contractors to prove whether the vote count was for . but the company charged with investigating is asking for much longer than the initially proposed 60 day deadline. the protracted story has led to come partisans being made with hillary clinton's attempts to denigrate donald trump's factory. in 2016 r t seekers had done off has been taking a closer look. be gracious in defeat, a very basic rule of good sportsmanship, but it's one that no longer applies to the race to the white house. i want to provide an update on our ongoing efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long november 3rd elections . i

the blazes already destroyed more than 400 square miles of woodstock. roughly the size of los angeles, more than 50 buildings, including homes, have been burnt. the ground around 2005 flight is a trying to bring the situation under control for the chinese a celebrating the joys, a beer with a month long festival. dedicated to the table. this isn't shunned on province, plenty of beer and snacks, or an awful lot of music for those who enjoy a big while they boost russia has successfully test far the next generation weapon, the 2nd hypersonic miss always learn from the washington. the parents see before striking a land target along the coast. the hidden target which was 350 kilometers away, can travel speeds of up to 9000 kilometers an hour and will be installed on russian navy submarines and ships. machine air powers, also getting an upgrade with plenty of new kids on display. the max show just outside of moscow, artesia of all of a joined an area about 16 that's preparing for the event. certainly the record launch of the my 21 to one international s face and all preparations are in ful

a well-done documentary called hbo's "woodstock '99: peace, love and rage," premieres on hbo max julywn with, and during your conversation, john shared a favorite quote by american novelist thomas wolff take a look. >> what was important was not that the beggar was drunk and reeling but was mounted on his horse and however unsteadily was going somewhere. why does that speak to you >> just the idea of going forward is so important and growing and moving forward i think people get caught up in, oh, it's not happening fast enough or i'm not getting where i need to be. as long as you're on your horse, however unsteadily, if you're going somewhere, then you're doing something. right? >> hoda, what was it like talking to john? >> it was cool it sort of spoke to his longevity. he didn't have a moment in hollywood. he just kept going kind of kept re-inventing. and i like that. he says he's still unsteady even now, keeps pushing through yeah cool speaking with him. >> he's ageless, by the way. unbelievable. >> yeah. >> i know. i hate him for that, but he's an awesome guy. catch the full conver

across the street in paris without flipping out she only got an assignment to go to new york to cover woodstock that she could relax, she hungs out with some veterans and i think that was the beginning of her somewhat recovery although c not complete we were not cognizant of all of that. >> those that i worked with are still suffering from pta - ptsd. i never covered any war think godav but when i would come back in new york from my jet lag and think i can do this i'm not good enough. they will find out. and that they just got lucky but they cannot actually do their job. >> and with that self-doubt is a way we undermine ourselves sometimes. >> that these three had confidence level and they did not falter ever. >> it's fantastic and know you will call on the next person. >> i am curious there are certain sections from each of those when the women were not allowed to be war reporters and then they made special exceptions and then t to be invoke that to allow women into war reporting and moving into the future and that we can never do anything like this again. because these laws don't make any sen

however, what frances anti trust woodstock is saying is that that has not been done. google has not begun those talks, and therefore it is decided to impose this very large fine, nearly $600000000.00 still to come on al jazeera. this news our, the final major of the year is only a couple of days away, but talk continues over golf feud details. coming up with andy. ah, the news news news. news with me. ah ah, ah ah. ah. andy is here now with all this point. thank you so much, barbara. another blow for it's carolyn fix, at least it's not covey related. this time roger federer has withdrawn a suffering, a set back with his name during the recent grass court season. he wrote this on twitter. i'm greatly disappointed as it's been and honor and highlights of my career. each time i've represented switzerland that was knocked out of women in the quarter finals. he's now hoping to come back to competitive tennis within the next couple of months. will be president someone's back, hasn't made the greatest of impressions in tokyo during his 1st public appearance in japan. ahead o

that is the quote, the warning from the countryside education woodstock. a school staff can occasionally often inadvertently bring a virtually political materials into their curriculum. despite the statutory requirement of political neutrality, we have also seen recent examples of schools and parents been unable to see eye to eye on the content used to teach primary school pupils about same sex relationships . because men should be listening to parents and should be ensuring that the parents are away, much with her old and i. but if my children were, you know, i would, seriously considering taking them to school because of what is being taught in school. parents have got no hope of protecting their children from it, and often they don't have no idea what their children are being taught so they can't even contract it because they don't know what they're being taught. will. ofsted blaine confusion in schools over the equality act of 2010. that's anti discrimination legislation which was brought into offer better protection for people. but the act has been wi

the wild wood program also says that it is critically running short of woodstock. the airport is still closed so crucial aid supplies are not getting to seek. and if not just w, saying this about you, monetary and organizations are also a very worried logistical nightmare. let me tell you what's going on right now. there's no electricity and no internet or telecommunication services that have been that has been cut off that no banks at operating currently, the un coordinating agency, you know, to say that a crucial bridge over the river. this is a crucial important supply line to west than guy that that's a bridge has been destroyed. so a lot of agencies getting a huge difficulties just getting supplies to the people who need it most. but we're also being told that fighting going on in some areas, different groups are controlling different areas of the european troops. all ha, pulls out and continue to pull out in some areas a return to the also retreating. but there's a big problem of x, for example, in west and the guy where special forces i lied specially for al

woodstock. the pill. james bond. tiny tim. ching. hair. brandt. bobby. wallace. golda meier. ecology. the supremes. apollo. debiggie. pope do. psychedelic. doom chet. wyeth. joe namath. malcolm x. armstrong. nixon. indira gandhi. demonstrations. l.e.m. but no name, no single word repeated itself as often on the pages of the 1960s and with so much controversy as the name "vietnam." >>> it was a strange mixture of peace and war. a battlefield nowhere and a battlefield everywhere. life during the day, death at night. an ally at one moment, an enemy the next. a lush jungle mixed with the rust of barbed wire. it was all of this. those who wanted to find the war might have had to hunt for it. those who didn't want to find the war often became the hunted. and around the world, and particularly the united states of america, there was another battle. a battle of words, of politics and debate. the question was who was the hunter in vietnam and who was the hunted. who would define aggressor and defender. and there was the larger search for a definition of the word "peace." did peace mea

show on earth, but unless you were there, you don't remember like, you know, if you didn't go to woodstock, you can't really know how mazing it was or how bad it was. like you had to ben at the show to have seen it and believed it. right? unless you were in america during it's 240 year existence, you would have really have no memory on it. right. if you can remember it, then you weren't really there because there's nothing left behind except some landfills filled with some collector. mikey trainers spent some for some reason assault for thousands of dollars. you know, we have the spectacle and we have that the surfaces certainly we even to the point where we elected a client president who is a reality tv star. he was like one of the gladiators in the spectacle that we call television reality tele. they even called it and very comical sort of spectacle manner. but then, of course, the bread we've seen the remarkable stimulus checks, credit, huey, all sorts of stuff being thrown around, joe biden says, his multi trillion dollar spending plans will reduce inflation in the years ahead. so this

he did not say when, but he said soon enough wsb has said that it's running low on woodstock, so it needs that airport in the copy fold macalester open as soon as possible, but then it is. i mean, a lot of other humanitarian organizations also say it is a logistical nightmare because they're not just talking about the airport being close right now. the guy, there's no electricity. power lines have been cattle. there is no internet or means of communication unless you have a satellite for days banks, i'm not operating. infrastructure has been destroyed. we've been talking about this bridge over the tech has everybody sees unimportant, a supply route to west, and the guy that has been destroyed and many aid was saying that this is all making that was very difficult because they need to get to as many people as possible and get there safely. thank you so much, katherine, for that update from if you hope you have a morgan has reported extensively on the 10s of thousands of tick ryan refugees who fled across the border into neighboring su, don, she's and get the or if with an update while a lo

jumped in only done by 75 year old ex hippies live in a new pulse new york because they went to woodstock in 1969 there when a bad go ran out of gas and they've been nearby ever since. the point of this new york times article that i didn't show you is that it also tried to poor the capitalist angle of hydroponic farm. and it talks about which corporations are doing the best at it and how martha stewart and justin timberlake are investors that they should not be in corporate hands. it should not be proprietary software and it should have gone all to do with any body who are part of in think instead using technology to create more efficient, more sustainable, less chemical heavy, less pollution. having prophecies should be a center piece of our society. the answers are out there. we just have to use them. company from washington, d. c. the valley to be redacted. the night i welcome. i'm li cab. know, take the news from bon, i have some sad news. china continues to let down the rest of the industrialized world. i mean, it's just not live up to the standards set by much of the globe. for exam

and in kabul, we have woodstock or are him. he is a conflict. peace and security expert art tillman cross talk rules and effect. that means he can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate when you go to scott, 1st, many of us watching this conflict for 2 decades expected this outcome was only the date that mattered most here. made my introduction, i said, i call it a complete and utter failure. the american people are poor and no one is held account, and if no one is held account, scott, then it's going to happen again. go ahead. your thoughts, of course, is going to happen again. it's in the it's, it's in the d. n a or the united states. so when we intervene, we intervene using a american centered template that is designed to placate domestic political factions. here in the united states, not to solve problems overseas, we've seen this almost everywhere. united states intervenes afghanistan was doomed to fail from the start because we didn't respect your asked you and tribal sensitivity is partially wally and nothing

woodstock. neil armstrong walking on the moon. now. six weekends of major artists. the panthers. kids sitting in the trees. i was nervous. summer of soul is a documentary exploring why this event, which it argues could have become the black woodstock, has been ignored for more than half a century. the film is directed by questlove, who drums for hip—hop outfit the roots and is a professor at nyu, where he is an expert in black music history. but even he hadn't heard of the festival. we are talking about stevie wonder, nina simone, sly and the family stone, comedians, politicians, everybody was there. the thing is that it is preserved professionally on tape and what winds up happening is that not one producer or outlet is interested. so this film just sits in the basement for 50 years. nobody ever heard of the harlem culture festival. nobody would believe it happened. however, a couple of film producers heard about the a0 hours of archive, managed to secure the rights, and decided that questlove was the man to bring it to life. it

street in paris without flipping out and only when she got an assignment to go to new york to cover woodstockhe could relax, hung out with some that's that were there and that was the beginning of her somewhat recovery. we were not cognizant of all of that. >> and those that are suffering from ptsd but then coming back from leave then new york i word lie awake from my jet lag and think i can do this. they will find out it's very common for women to have imposter syndrome. in the way they have to undermine themselves. >> these three had a confidence level they did not falter ever. >> . >> i and cheery one - - curious certain sections where the women were not allowed and made special exceptions and then they a went back and forth a handful of times and i'm sure you're moving into the future they have the's test cases we can never do anything like this again to prove that the's laws don't make any sense to be just as good or better or just as diverse so how did the rules inform the future landscape? >> after vietnam women wereld forever on the battlefield. it together countries a little bit long