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Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Score: 6.1

Genre: Documentary

Year: 1994-06-01

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

Actors:

Marlon Riggs

Marlon Riggs

Angela Davis

Angela Davis

bell hooks

bell hooks

Essex Hemphill

Essex Hemphill

Cornel West

Cornel West

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