On this weekend marking the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., VH-1 decided to briefly abandon its ratings driven and often tawdry descent into incessant and embarrassing reality programming with a great new music documentary: "The Night James Brown Saved Boston". (Remember, at one time in the 20th century, and even some of the 21st, VH-1 used to be about actual music.) NPR discussed this documentary this week.
I blogged about MLK earlier this year regarding pop music's impact on and reaction to Black Power as well as King's nonviolence movement.
As the documentary explains, while other American cities and urban centers were descending into chaos after King's killing, James Brown helped keep Boston from its own inferno.
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Here's a bit more about 60s Black Power:
Excerpts from King's last speech on April 3rd:
Lastly, some raw footage from Boston '68 with James Brown:
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