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Title Scared of Revolution.

Publication Info. Film Movement, 2018.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan
Event Originally produced by Film Movement in 2018.
Summary Umar Bin Hassan hasn't even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there's sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times starting in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces, "Ni****s Are Scared of Revolution", he criticizes his black brothers' destructive, macho behavior. SCARED OF REVOLUTION concentrates on Hassan's personal life, in which he still fights his demons. He grew up poor with a violent, unpredictable father, which in turn left him with an inferiority complex. In the course of his adult life, he has had a string of bad relationships and left children without a father figure. In his darkest hour, he also battled a crack addiction. "Deep inside, Umar was scared of the revolution himself," says fellow member of The Last Poets Abiodun Oyewole. But Hassan takes control of his life again, breaks the destructive cycle and does his best to be the devoted father and grandfather that he was never fortunate enough to have.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Ethnicity.
Artists.
Literature.
Music.
History.
Enthnology.
Documentary films.
Arts.
Social sciences.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Krikke, Daniel, film director.
Oyewole, Abiodun, actor.
Bin Hassan, Umar, actor.
Film Movement (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 14586459 Kanopy
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