Furious flower : conversations with African American poets. Vol. 2, Warriors
John L. Hodges (Film director, Editor of moving image work), Judith McCray (Film producer), Joanne V. Gabbin (Film producer, Narrator), Amiri Baraka (Interviewee, Author, Narrator), Askia M. Touré (Interviewer), Haki R. Madhubuti (Interviewee, Author, Narrator), Sonia Sanchez (Interviewee, Author, Interviewer, Narrator), Kalamu ya Salaam (Interviewee, Author, Narrator), Everett Hoagland (Interviewer), Lorenzo Thomas (Interviewer), Eugene Redmond (Interviewee, Author, Narrator), Jabari Asim (Interviewer), Nikki Giovanni (Interviewee, Author, Narrator), Virginia C. Fowler (Interviewer), California Newsreel (Firm), Furious Flower Conference
A four part video anthology of African American poetry from the 1940s to 1995 offering intimate portraits of leading poets reading and discussing their own works. Part 2 examines the poets of the Black liberation movements of the 1960s. Their works defined a strong Black cultural identity and waged a war for literary self-determination. Here these veterans read from works which stirred a generation and discuss the achievements and unfulfilled hopes of their movement
VHS Video, English, 1998
California Newsreel, San Francisco, 1998