CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Summer Of Soul," a historic celebration of Black music and culture, is the front runner to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 1969, the Harlem Cultural Festival was ...

"Summer of Soul" is one of the best movies I have seen anywhere this year, and it offers a record of the Harlem Cultural Festival that ran for a few years in the late 1960s.

The film centers around the largely forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival, which was filmed in Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mount Morris Park) in Harlem, New York, over the summer of 1969.

The film centers around the largely forgotten Harlem Cultural Festival, which was filmed in Marcus Garvey Park (formerly Mount Morris Park) in Harlem, New York, over the summer of 1969.

As the documentary makes clear, the original Summer of Soul was about a lot more than music because 1969 was a change of era in the Black community.