Black Is. . . Black Ain't
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| Initial release | San Francisco |
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| Directors | Marlon Riggs |
| Languages | English Language |
| Cinematography | Robert Shepard |
| Producers | Marlon Riggs |
| Nicole Atkinson | |
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| ID | 1490539 |
About Black Is. . . Black Ain't
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. …
