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8 de oct. de 2020 · Now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD: https://bit.ly/3bv6Nh9Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) wa...
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23 de oct. de 2020 · Nationtime: Directed by William Greaves. With Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr., Richard Hatcher, Walter Fauntroy. A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
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- William Greaves
- 2020-10-23
23 de oct. de 2020 · Nationtime is a call to action, showing us how far we have come in some ways and how little progress we have made in so many more.
- Power of The Moment
- Why The Convention Happened
- Historic Importance
- A Period of Upheavals
- Seeking Political Leverage
- “Nationtime,” Unity and Decline
- Political Incorporation
- The Nbipp Effort
- Backlash and White Supremacy
- Key to Building Unity
Despite political and ideological differences, participants were united in frustration with the Democratic and Republican parties whose national conventions loomed on the horizon. We wrestled with one major question: Should Black people build within, or from outside, the system? As part of the Black Agenda, the Gary Declaration issued by the conven...
The national Black community was still shaken by the King assassination four years earlier, and by police brutality and worsening conditions in the urban “ghettos.” In 1972, crisis plagued Black America. Heroin ravaged inner cities, Black soldiers were dying in Vietnam and unrest from Chicago, Newark, and Detroit to Los Angeles had instilled a real...
The three-day event would ultimately form a National Black Political Assembly to implement its 68-page agenda. But it would be eight years later that a National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP) was created. The euphoria of wide unity evident at the gathering would be short-lived. The most radical pro-Black party wing lost, and the establis...
The year 1972 was a period of rising class struggle and resistance to racism, national oppression, sexism and other issues. The Black Liberation movement had led the way since the 1960s and inspired other social groups. In the Southwest, Mexican American and Chicano communities raised similar democratic demands for La Raza. Puerto Ricans in New Yor...
Long before the Gary convention, political gatherings of Black people had taken place periodically since the 1820s in cities such as Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chicago and New Orleans. Organizers of the 1972 event at minimum aimed to inspire more Black people to pursue political office. Black Congresspeople hoped to leverage the resulting agenda to ...
Bobby Seale, who along with Huey Newton founded the Black Panthers in 1966, was among those at the convention emphasizing political involvement, frustrated by what he saw as time wasted debating cultural nationalism. “It’s not about that,” he said he recalled thinking. “It’s about political power. They’re the ones who manage the money.” Then came J...
Of course, more Black faces as part of the ruling parties and state structures did not benefit everyone. In the wake of successive recessions, deindustrialization, the 2008 financial crash and Covid, the majority of working class African Americans are less well off than in the 1970s. Some 12 years later in 1984 and again in 1988, Jesse Jackson ran ...
Eight years after Gary, it became clear that the strategy of working within the political system was a failure. The Black party should have been formed out of the 1972 convention, even if only by the most left wing sectors of the Black movement. The National Black Independent Political Party came too late in 1980. Jackson did not join it as he had ...
The right-wing white backlash was beginning everywhere. Some eight years after Gary, Ronald Reagan was elected president. He openly appealed to white racism. One of his first actions was attacking Black rights (then falsely calling affirmative action programs as a form of “reverse racism”) and the union movement. He and many Democrats also criticiz...
Unity did happen in the 1960s at the height of the civil rights battle. But it was never as strong as needed. Many on the left saw class “bread and butter” issues as the way to bring white and Black people together. But downplaying the national oppression of Blacks and others is why the ruling class has effectively divided the working class since e...
Nationtime. This film focuses on the National Black Political Convention in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
1 de jul. de 2023 · Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972. This historic event gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, and Amiri Baraka.
"Nationtime documentary captures... one of the most powerful, Black-and-proud gatherings of all time." – Craig Lindsey, Houston Chronicle "This rousing and revelatory documentary celebrates a diversity of black voices, finding support and solidarity even amid expected tensions and divisions."
