Black Is… Black Ain’t
5.819951h 27mDocumentary
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.
Cast
Marlon Riggs
Self
Angela Davis
Self
b
bell hooks
Self
Essex Hemphill
Self
Cornel West
Self
M
Maulana Karenga
Self
B
Barbara Smith
Self
M
Michele Wallace
Self
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