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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

11 Sep 2024
150 min
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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.

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Nina Simone

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Louis Armstrong

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Malcolm X

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Abbey Lincoln

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Duke Ellington

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Allen Dulles

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John Coltrane

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