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19951h 27m

English

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Name: Black Is… Black Ain’t
Director: Marlon Riggs
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1995-10-11
Duration: 1 h 27 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Marlon Riggs, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Essex Hemphill, Cornel West

A personal journey through Black identity

5.6

TMDb

7.6

IMDb

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.

DirectorMarlon Riggs

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Black Is… Black Ain’t

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Black Is… Black Ain’t

Cast & Crew