Texas filmmaker spotlights gritty struggle for equality in new film


This week, Channel 8, Houston’s PBS station, will air The First Rainbow Coalition, an hour-length documentary on the young activists who came together to crack down on the tyranny, oppression, and corruption in Chicago during the late 1960s. The film chronicles the different groups — African-American militants the Black Panthers; Confederate flag-wearing, white lefties the Young Patriots; Puerto-Rican civil-rights fighters the Young Lords — who put aside their differences and joined forces for a greater…

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