In 1966, a 25-year-old African-American student, Stokcly Carmichael, used for the first time the term "black power", which cannot be reduced to the sole political prism. Black Pincer It is a whole culture, vast, in its own right. It is expressed in different forms, in literature, via figures like James Baldwin or Maya Angelou, the visual arts, from Kerry James Marshall to Jamel Shabazz, on the small and big screen, thanks in particular to the Blasploitation or Spike Lee, as well as in music, a crucial vector. From Sam Cooke, who announced in 1964 A Change Is Gonna Come to Aretha Franklin, who claims the Respect, NWA launching Fuck tha Police... Soul, jazz, hip-hop, dung and funk have all made it possible to carry the voices of black Americans in tense, if not discriminatory, contexts. Witness Muhammad AU's refusal to go to Vietnam, Tommie Smith's raised fist at the Mexico Olympics in 1968; witness today the wave of protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd.

Following a chronological thread, divided between stalls of socio-cultural places, chronicles of records, films, books and essential works of art, portraits or short stories of legendary events, Black Power offers a “pop culture” panorama over more than fifty years, from fifties to the present day, from Mississippi Goddam! from Nina Simone to Black Lives Matter of today.