Black Is… Black Ain’t

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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  Marlon Riggs
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  Christiane Badgley

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  Marlon Riggs
  Self
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  Angela Davis
  Self
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  bell hooks
  Self
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  Essex Hemphill
  Self
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  Cornel West
  Self
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  Maulana Karenga
  Self
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  Barbara Smith
  Self
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  Michele Wallace
  Self