By Miles Marshall Lewis ·Updated December 30, 2021
Nobody’s been waiting longer for this year’s debut of Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) than me. Well, with the obvious exception of the late TV director Hal Tulchin, who originally shot the footage of the Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969. When first told of the Marcus Garvey Park concerts—starring Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight