Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Year: 1994

Runtime: 87 mins

Language: English

Documentary

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs completed this final work while dying of AIDS-related complications in 1994, speaking directly to the camera from his hospital bed. It confronts sexism and homophobia in the Black community, intercutting misogynistic and anti‑gay lyrics from popular hip‑hop with interviews of thinkers such as Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.

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