Looking back to Peabody Conversation with Alex Gibney, executive producer/director of “Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,” who he describes as “very much a part of the civil rights and black power movement in a way that was really transformative because he could speak to a mass audience in a way that so many people couldn’t.”
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