Spike Lee, John Legend, Al Sharpton Dissect Racism In America As Doc ‘Loudmouth’ Closes Out Tribeca Festival
deadline.comLoudmouth’s first images are of New York City in the 1980s, startling footage of frothing racism from Howard Beach to Bensonhurst back when Rev.
Al Sharpton rose to prominence as an organizer, orator and agitator.The film by Josh Alexander follows the rise of sometime controversial founder of the National Action Network and former TV host.
Sharpton has been accused of spotlight seeking. In the doc, that’s by design in that Sharpton, from early on, was deliberate about being loud, ubiquitous and on TV whenever and wherever possible as the best strategy to change the narrative and eventually the law around social justice.
The family of George Floyd was in the audience for the premiere of the documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. The fest’s closing selection ushered in the national Juneteenth holiday.Loudmouth delves into Sharpton’s activist roots as a teenager — in 1972 he worked for the presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, who was the first Black woman in the U.S.
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