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 ...

What would Hollywood be without a good ole Blaxploitation film? And now that “They Cloned Tyrone” has hit Netflix screens, conversations about the Blaxploitation movies that crawled so that “They ...

Read full article: 📈Best-performing Florida stocks last week In September, prices inflated by 0.1% compared to August, and were up 2.4% from September 2022 The 1970s gave rise to an audacious ...

While many notable Black people were nominated for Oscars recently, it’s sometimes cool to remember and look back at the actors, actresses, and filmmakers who laid the groundwork so these talented ...

Film Forum will be presenting a group of films dating largely from the genre’s heyday, the early 1970s, under the title “Blaxploitation, Baby!” Has this series been mounted as an air-conditioned ...

The term blaxploitation was coined to describe a film genre that targeted urban audiences, was often set in U.S. ghettos, freely used the word honky, and stereotyped blacks as pimps, prostitutes, and ...

Mike Myers says he likes the style of 1970s blaxploitation films, and he's borrowing from the genre for the third "Austin Powers" movie. "It's such a yummy flavor -- the language, the music, the ...

Michael Jai White has been in a lot of film and TV projects over the last 35 years or so. But probably most beloved amongst his fans is "Black Dynamite," the 2009 sendup of 1970s blaxploitation movies ...

Richard Roundtree, the pioneering actor who starred as “Shaft,” the ultra-smooth private detective in several 1970s blaxploitation films, has died at the age of 81, according to the Associated Press.

Scores of films and documentaries about Muhammad Ali have spotlighted his historic 1970 comeback fight, which took place more than three years after he was stripped of his heavyweight title for ...

Since October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has featured an exhibit titled “Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power,” which displays all the pictures the African-American photographer ...