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Leni Sinclair was at the heart of the city’s radical music and politics in the 1960s. Now 80, she reflects on today’s struggle for equality and social change
Defying Covid-19 and advancing years, Leni Sinclair left home recently to join a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Detroit. “It was exhilarating,” the 80-year-old rock photographer and radical activist of 1960s counterculture said last week. “But I did my marching 50 years ago.”
Sinclair spoke to the Observer about how she has been watching closely the current challenges to racial inequities, environmental carelessness and entrenched institutional and political decadence. Earlier this week, in what could be seen as a fulfilment of the 60s social progress movements, Kamala Harris, the California senator and daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, was selected as Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick – an echo that reverberated again with the political ticket’s choice of campaign theme song: Curtis Mayfield’s 1970 classic Move On Up. Continue reading...