Watch Black Is … Black Ain’t Online Free on GOKU

Cinema Mode

Discussion

Resize

Black Is … Black Ain’t

Marlon Riggs, an African-American documentary filmmaker who passed away in 1994 from complications connected to AIDS, was working on his final project at the time. In numerous moments, he addresses the camera from his hospital bed. The video directly targets sexism and homophobia in the black community by juxtaposing misogynistic and anti-gay obscenities from hip-hop lyrics with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks, and Angela Davis.

Read full

Genres:

Documentary