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Black Is… Black Ain’t

Movie
1994
1h 27m
English
Documentary
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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Directed By: Marlon Riggs

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JC230
10/10  2 years ago
Paradoxically, amazingly sweeping in scope yet tenderly intimate in delivery, Black Is, Black Ain’t loves up to its title with aplomb. In under 90 minutes it tackles so much about blackness from the role of the church to homosexuality to class to dialect to demographic to sexism and more and yet n More
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