In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Patrice Lumumba
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
as Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
as Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
as Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
as Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
as Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
as Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
as Self (archive footage)
Никита Хрущёв
as Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
as Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage)
