Black Is… Black Ain’t
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Overview
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.
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Cast
Marlon Riggs
Angela Davis
bell hooks
Essex Hemphill
Cornel West
Maulana Karenga
Barbara Smith
Michele Wallace
Crew
Marlon Riggs
Christiane Badgley
Robert Shepard
Marlon Riggs
Nicole Atkinson
Christiane Badgley
Bob Paris
Sekou Shepard
Jasmine Dellal
Jasmine Dellal
Tanya Phipps
Sam Green
Bill T. Jones
Mary Watkins
Michael Chin
Emiko Omori