The Blaxploitation age wasn’t all about badass brothas and sistas whooping (primarily white) asses on the big screen. There ...

Jazz legends Grant Green and Herbie Hancock took out The Man in Blaxploitation films The Final Comedown and The Spook Who Sat By The Door.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would Hollywood be without a good ole Blaxploitation film? And now that “They Cloned Tyrone” has hit Netflix screens, ...

¿The most important thing to remember about those films in the ¿70s is that it¿s our mythology. It's our kind of Hercules and Homer and all that stuff. Superfly, all those people who Pam Grier played, ...

Blaxploitation is a genre whose iconography has, through time, repetition and reduction, come to be defined by kitsch. The term immediately conjures images of bad ass afro-clad Black men and women ...

It's been a minute but Hell Razah is back with his old moniker and ready to attack the hip-hop world once again. The Sunz of Man emcee has teamed up with favored Queens producer Ayatollah for their ...

The 1970s blaxploitation subgenre holds a complex history in Hollywood. The bright spots of the category are the lessened barriers of entry it shaped for black artists. RELATED: How 1971 Films Like ...

The opening lyrics to the theme from “Shaft” (1971) set the tone for perhaps the most polarizing genre in film history: Blaxploitation. Cleopatra Jones, Black Caesar, The Mack, Foxy Jones, Super Fly.

On one hand, the movies that tend to comprise this classification were in a cinematic space in which, for the first time in history, Black representation on screen was designed and portrayed by Black ...

The director's 1997 film Jackie Brown offered a thoughtful critique of blaxploitation-style manhood. Too bad his latest movie, Django Unchained, looks much less ...