Black Is… Black Ain’t
A personal journey through Black identity
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.
Runtime
1h 27m
Language
EN
Budget
Undisclosed
Revenue
Undisclosed
Cast
Faces behind the story
Marlon Riggs
Self
Angela Davis
Self
bell hooks
Self
Essex Hemphill
Self
Cornel West
Self
Maulana Karenga
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