SEE: SCARED OF REVOLUTION AT MAYSLES CINEMA

Thursday, August 15th -Tuesday, August 20th, 7:30PM, Scared of Revolution, at Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue by 127th Street. Umar Bin Hassan hasn't yet hit 70, but he walks with difficulty and there's sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progressive spirit of the times in the late 1960s, he was a major influence on later hip-hop artists. In one of his best-known pieces, "Ni***s Are Scared of Revolution," he criticizes his black brothers' destructive, macho behavior.

Scared of Revolution concentrates on Hassan's personal life, in which he still fights his demons. He grew up poor with a violent, unpredictable father, which in turn left him with an inferiority complex. In the course of his adult life, he has had a string of bad relationships and left children without a father figure. In his darkest hour, he also battled a crack addiction.  More details and online tickets at the Maysles site: LINK

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