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Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 1, 1994

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

61%

Original Title

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Production Companies

Signifyin' Works

Director

Marlon Riggs

Description

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.