In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles made “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” as an indirect response to Sidney Poitier’s performance in 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” While the ’60s and ’70s ...
Last week I binge watched theGrioTV’s marathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier movies and realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and that Pam Grier was pretty amazing. This week, the trek ...
The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a portmanteau of Black and exploitation, came at critical time between the ...
*TUCSON, Ariz. — The blaxploitation movies of early 1970s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential. Derrais Carter, a University of ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But, here’s the thing. While blaxploitation may not have gone away completely, there seems to be ...
As a preteen growing up in New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too young to be ...
Keke Palmer plays a woman who makes slave owners pay in Krystin Ver Linden's quasi-Blaxploitation debut. By John DeFore An awkwardly structured adventure that stumbles pretty badly in what should be ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re up for a night of blaxploitation and all that comes with it, and are looking for a horrifyingly deadly night instead of ...