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Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994)
Directed by Marlon Riggs
Overview
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.
Length 87 minutes
Actors
Marlon Riggs | Angela Davis | Bell Hooks | Essex Hemphill | Cornel West | Maulana Karenga | Barbara Smith | Michele Wallace