‘Summer of Soul’ is a jaw-dropping concert film and remarkable portrait of Harlem in 1969

By Jamel Smith June 30, 2021 In Langston Hughes’ 1951 poem, “Harlem (A Dream Deferred),” he asks the question: “What happens to a dream deferred?” With a total of eleven lines, the short and pithy poem seeks to answer this question through a series of images: a raisin in the sun, a festering sore, rotten … Continue reading ‘Summer of Soul’ is a jaw-dropping concert film and remarkable portrait of Harlem in 1969