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Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)

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1995 · 87 min · Documentary

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995) is a documentary film with a runtime of 87 minutes. It holds a TMDB score of 5.8. Compare its IMDb, TMDB and community ratings below to see how Black Is… Black Ain’t scores across every source.

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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.