I am Neapolitan like the actor Giancarlo Esposito who plays him in The Godfather of Harlem. Here in Europe he is an unknown figure compared to Martin Luther King and Malcon X. Was he an ambiguous, cynical and hypocritical figure as the series represents him? It fascinates me a lot.
@dangreene3895
2 ай бұрын
He was something ,he was a leader , he was charismatic , great speaker a gadfly , and crooked as a dog hind leg, a fact he never denied , but was something and America was a better place because of him . America needs people who are bigger than life.
@charliehindman9195
3 ай бұрын
He’s like the anti-LBJ and simultaneously so similar. It’s astounding. Way cooler, more charismatic, and didn’t kill millions of Asians, but there are similarities
@jldotson5873
4 ай бұрын
🖤🤍💙2🧿7💙🤍🖤 Wherre
@svennielsen633
4 ай бұрын
When ever I hear about Black slaves in America, I have to think of my forefathers who were White peasant and craftsman slaves in Europe for centuries, were exploited no less, with no more freedom, treated as the property of manor owners and the Danish Crown. It started with centuries of suppression, they had to fight from the bottom of society after they got their freedom and independence and often with nothing to start on. This human history is far more common than you think, and it is not only Black history.
@carolynforge8586
5 ай бұрын
Adam Clayton Powell is Black History.
@theone1855
5 ай бұрын
this is needed
@marquishoward3529
8 ай бұрын
If only we had people in Congress like this today
@MoorenaEl
8 ай бұрын
Sick and shameful that none of his children followed in his footsteps for our people. I wish that they went into his Black ancestry.
@rastula8708
9 ай бұрын
Long live the great Adam Clayton Powell Jr ❤️💛💚
@smittyvalentino5972
9 ай бұрын
Why was the narrator whispering?
@RadicalforGod
10 ай бұрын
I love how he didn’t pay those liabilities. He knew he wasn’t guilty. Why should he pay?
@RadicalforGod
10 ай бұрын
So sad all those black men during the great depression fighting to eat out the trash. Now you know Powell is a great man to step in do something about this. God bless you for blessings us!
@jap_johnson
10 ай бұрын
So-called Black man?🤔 Look like a so-called white man to me.
@wandajohnson3048
10 ай бұрын
❤
@scottlund4562
10 ай бұрын
My respect for this man rises every time I hear him speak. "What's in your hand?"
@kevinlawrence8580
11 ай бұрын
It's a damn shame he doesn't get the credit he deserves. He was conducting a bus boycott and other protests before MLK ever began participating in civil rights. Also it's very unnerving that people put Malcolm X over him as a civil rights. It's unconsciounable. Malcolm did next to nothing for the Civil rights movement. He never led a protest march, nor did he help get any legislation passed. All he did was make a few incendiary speeches and quotes. Regurgitating the separatist doctrine of Elijah Muhammad. Whom he later discovered wasn't a divine man at all. Muhammad, or Elijah Poole, which was his birth name was nothing more than a charlatan. Who had affairs with secretaries of the Nation of Islam. A black separatist cult he was the leader of. Malcolm had a political organization called The Organization of Afro American Unity. But it failed and is no longer in existence. He was a terrible organizer. Malcolm was nothing more and nothing less than a media creation. A folk hero. Just like Muhammad Ali.
@dianaspain9768
11 ай бұрын
Adam Clayton Powell
@ScribblebytesWorldwide
Жыл бұрын
Oprah is Zulu.
@zjaz8000
Жыл бұрын
@ 14:40 - 15:37! Especially right @ 15:29. Imagine that…! …the seat of “American government” …the very seat of “democracy” then we’re told, “…on Capitol Hill, the congressional barber shop, the gymnasium, even the dining room were barred to black elected officials.” Can anyone even imagine democracy being seated and administered from such a hell hole full of devils, let alone justice! Talk about a twisted evil and insanity and society, I won’t call it sickness at the risk of maligning that condition!
@zjaz8000
Жыл бұрын
The words spoken by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. at the beginning of this video are in essence and in effect the exact same things that Colin Kaepernick meant and was saying and doing when he refused to stand with those who always stand for the National Anthem and salute the American flag in honor of them but who rarely if ever live by the great and ideal principles conveyed by those words and penned and enshrined in that Anthem and symbolized by the flag in disrespect and dishonor to them. In refusing to stand for the National Anthem and in refusing to salute the American flag, Kaepernick was not protesting against the National Anthem and the American Flag, but rather he was protesting against the American people who talk the talk but don’t walk the walk. Kaepernick in effect was saying, I refuse to disrespect and dishonor the National Anthem and the American Flag along with you. And I think the American people understand and know as much. Which is Kaepernick’s point. Colin Kaepernick was not in protest against the National Anthem and the American Flag, he was in allegiance with both the Anthem and Flag because the two symbolize and represent what he believes and lives, unlike those Americans he protested against who only sing the anthem and salute the flag but who rarely if ever live by the principles coined by the words of the Anthem and symbolized by the Flag. That’s, I think and believe, why Colin Kaepernick refused to stand when the National Anthem was played. Why would you stand with me to sing the National Anthem and salute the American Flag and the freedom and the liberties derived from it when after we’ve stood “together” in salute, then in the process of time I invariably do all within my power to abridge and to even negate that freedom as it also extends to you? Which, in such a case, I think and believe that I should be knocked down for standing, rather than you kneel down in protest of my standing. @ 0:00, “Is this the land of the free and the home of the brave?,” asked Mr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and the people said, “no!;” “is this the land with liberty and justice for all?,” asked Mr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and the people said, no!”; “is this one nation, indivisible, under God?,” asked Mr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and the people said, no!;” “either let us practice democracy we are preaching… or shut up!” …said Mr. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. That’s all Colin Kaepernick was saying and doing when he kneeled… Colin Kaepernick has more respect for and showed more honor towards the National Anthem and the American Flag than many of those who have stood and who now stand and have sung and now sing the Anthem with hats off and hand over heart and salute the Flag with the other hand… Talk is cheap, it’s the walk that counts and truly talks!
@bobbill9953
Жыл бұрын
1.55 holy shit
@Butterfly1798
Жыл бұрын
Don’t buy where you can’t work, we need to apply this right now 2023
@Butterfly1798
Жыл бұрын
Damn he did his passing? Whoa! You speak and spoke so passionately and would switch up as Caucasian
@deloreswillis9224
Жыл бұрын
Ida B Wells Burnett 1 of my SHEROES❤… rip ..🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
@thadevilzadvocate
Жыл бұрын
He looks white. Almost thought he was at first sight.
@NourDette
Жыл бұрын
An Icon💛💛💛💛🍒🍒
@vernicejillmagsino9603
Жыл бұрын
2:41 Black American can trace their ancestor through Ellis Island by their white ancestors
@hd86star
Жыл бұрын
I would love to see Rihanna do this
@ginamitembe8935
Жыл бұрын
Ooooooooh MERCY 🙆 😢 WHAT resilient enduring survival!!! No one can STOP God's plans for all his creation! No matter what the enemy put's us through!!! Hmmmmm🤯
@ginamitembe8935
Жыл бұрын
There's no question!!!!!!!🙆😢 If not for the Grace and God's MERCIES 🙏 who keeps us all through unimaginable plights to today!!! Ooooooooh MERCY 🙏🙏😭
@feministnewsnetwork3742
Жыл бұрын
The Powell Amendment IS Genius** The Squad Sure in the Hell is not doing One *THEY ARE CRAP Powell as a Drunk was still better than The Squad* Now Is See where the Black Panther got the community mutal aid idea & did well with it* Til CIA came & ended it* cus it might lead to M4A***
@melaninawakening9350
Жыл бұрын
This man could have EASILY passed for white but he didn't, he embraced his blackness to tbe fullest and wanted to help Black people as much as he could. Respect to Mr. Powell
@barixsafarivisuals226
Жыл бұрын
How are we not taught about this man just learning about him
@DaddySturgill
Жыл бұрын
Another person I didn’t learn about in school
@ifinallyfoundthebeef
Жыл бұрын
How can America talk about Nazi Germany when America was doing the same thing.
@earlperson741
Жыл бұрын
EVERY ONE WHO IS A DESENT MAN OR WOMAN IN THIS COUNTRY COULD USE HIM NOW⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@earlperson741
Жыл бұрын
I THANK THE LORD FOR GIVING US A MAN LIKE ADAM CLAYTON POWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@earlperson741
Жыл бұрын
LONG BEFORE MLK... ADAM CLAYTON POWELL HELPED TO C MAKE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, VERY DAMMMM MUCH SO......... HE DOESN'T GET THE CREDIT HE DESERVES!!!!!!!!!
@kevenreynolds333
Жыл бұрын
he had the complexion for the protection!
@nayhollingsworth5443
Жыл бұрын
Y’all must’ve not seen The Godfather of Harlem
@osbornebinghamjr.559
Жыл бұрын
Wow, he was truly greater than MLK. Obviously did more and cared more. I didn't know about the Powell amendments.. Game changer for me
@glennwilliams3470
2 жыл бұрын
Wowwwwwwww
@glennwilliams3470
2 жыл бұрын
Most of the Pickets in the Streets were women
@kimjohnson8471
2 жыл бұрын
We need an Adam Powell today!
@lawrencehamilton5959
2 жыл бұрын
Yall were harble
@jamesthomas9791
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite documentaries. As a teenager, I didn't know about Powell. Dr. King was first and foremost the top Civil Rights leader of the 20th century and then later followed by Malcolm X. It was in 2002 when I really started learning about Powell and his legacy. I bought the dvd "Keep the Faith, baby. I thought it was a great movie and gave me a lot of insight on his life. Unfortunately, Powell became his own worst enemy and got him kicked out of Congress. The mishandling of committee funds, travel vouchers and absenteeism unraveled a great career and somewhat tarnished an astounding legacy. But with all that aside, I still think highly of him and have a great deal of respect for his accomplishments.
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