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Black Is… Black Ain’t

1994

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Black Is… Black Ain’t

Genre: Documentary

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Runtime: 87 min

Average vote: 6.1

Release date: 1994-06-01

Production Countries: US

Director: Marlon Riggs

Plot:

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.

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