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
Self
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Self
Chris Rock
Self
Tony Lawrence
Self
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
B.B. King
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self
Mavis Staples
Self
Mahalia Jackson
Self (archive footage)
David Ruffin
Self
Sly Stone
Self
Hugh Masekela
Self
John V. Lindsay
Self (archive footage)
Ray Barretto
Self
Herbie Mann
Self
Mongo Santamaría
Self
Questlove
Self (uncredited)
Luis A. Miranda Jr.
Self
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson
Self (archive footage)
Moms Mabley
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Redd Foxx
Self (uncredited)
Crew
Questlove
Director
Joshua L. Pearson
Editor
Shawn Peters
Director of Photography
Davis Guggenheim
Executive Producer
Laurene Powell Jobs
Executive Producer
Ruth Johnston
Executive Producer
Jody Allen
Executive Producer
Nicole Stott
Executive Producer
Beth Hubbard
Executive Producer
Dave Sirulnick
Executive Producer
Rocky Collins
Executive Producer
Jen Isaacson
Executive Producer
Jon Kamen
Executive Producer
Jonathan Silberberg
Executive Producer
Jannat Gargi
Executive Producer
Jeffrey Lurie
Executive Producer
David Dinerstein
Producer
Robert Fyvolent
Producer
Joseph Patel
Producer
Andrea Dramer
Associate Producer
Ashley Bembry-Kaintuck
Associate Producer
Cora Atkinson
Co-Producer
Gregory A. Thomson
Co-Producer
Inuka Bacote
Co-Producer
Sunny Bourgeois
Hair Supervisor
Robyn Fisher
Makeup & Hair
Viola Nicholson
Makeup & Hair
Nicola David
Makeup & Hair
Jiho Kim
Assistant Sound Editor
Paul Hsu
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Paul Massey
Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rich Mach
Sound Mixer
Mike Stahr
Sound Mixer
Alan Chow
Sound Mixer
Dennis Hamlin
Sound Mixer
Aisha Hallgren
Sound Mixer
Emily Strong
Sound Mixer
Lauren Nikrooz
Art Direction
Mark Thompson
Art Direction
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