Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Release date : 1994-06-01

Production country :

United States of America

Production company :

Signifyin' Works

Status : Released

Durasi : 87 Min.

Popularity : 2.079

6.1

Total Vote : 10

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.