Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles made “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” as an indirect response to ...

The soundtracks to two Blaxploitation classics, Super Fly and The Mack, stood alone from their films and influenced decades ...

If you’re up for a night of blaxploitation and all that comes with it, and are looking for a horrifyingly deadly night instead of a Christmas-y one, then these four movies are the prefect way to spend ...

Here's an ever-growing list of some of the best blaxploitation films I reviewed during Black History Month and in Unstreamable, a weekly column about films not currently streaming. Check back ...

The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a portmanteau of Black and exploitation, came at critical time between the ...

*TUCSON, Ariz. — The blaxploitation movies of early 1970s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential. Derrais Carter, a University of ...

Long before rappers were gracing the screens of multiplexes and scoring executive producer credits in big-budget Hollywood comedies and thrillers, the primary way for Black people to see themselves on ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Keke Palmer plays a woman who makes slave owners pay in Krystin Ver Linden's quasi-Blaxploitation debut. By John DeFore An awkwardly structured adventure that stumbles pretty badly in what should be ...

Last week I binge watched theGrioTV’s marathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier movies and realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and that Pam Grier was pretty amazing. This week, the trek ...