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Yesterday’s post about John Sinclair seemed to get mostly ignored until I ran to the grocery store to get soup and juice and medicine and vodka — I’m almost over the cold my girlfriend has so now I’m the one making the grocery runs. While searching for just the right chicken and dumpling soup and the elusive turmeric infused orange juice I was simultaneously engaged in an FB comment-a-thon with a fellow Detroit music enthusiast. He brought up Huey P. Newton and I was reminded of a remarkable television project that Spike Lee did several years ago — it’s a one-man-performance biopic of Newton written by and starring Roger Guenveur Smith. Smith’s whole effort here is remarkable and Lee’s staging, lighting and filming are imaginative and visceral. The Huey story dovetails nicely with the Sinclair angle so think of this post as a follow-up to yesterday’s. Here’s A Huey P. Newton Story…
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