The Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival Present: The Night James Brown Saved Boston
/Wednesday, July 23rd, 7:45pm
Maysles Cinema's Summer of Music, The Marcus Garvey Park Alliance and Reel Harlem: The Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival Present:
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
@ St. Nicholas Park
(135th St. Plaza & St. Nicholas Ave)
Lawn Chairs Permitted
Rain Location: TBA
100% Free
7:45pm
"Godfather of Soul" DJ Set with DJ Chairman Mao
8:45pm
The Night James Brown Saved Boston
David Leaf, 2008, 90 min.
It's the day after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King. America's inner cities are on fire, and the city of Boston is looking to James Brown to help stop it from exploding and imploding. The Night James Brown Saved Boston focuses on James Brown's extraordinary, history-making concert at the Boston Garden on April 5, 1968, putting the events of that day into the context of the times, and for the first time, telling the dramatic story of what happened that night, spotlighting this crucial moment in the life and career of James Brown. Up to that moment, James Brown has been a great artist, a successful businessman, a civil rights activist and an American patriot. On April 5, 1968, he becomes hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boL_q1DKIhQ
