Black Is Black Aint (1994)

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Black Is Black Aint
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AfricanAmerican documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDSrelated 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 antigay slurs from popular hiphop songs juxtaposed with interviews with AfricanAmerican intellectuals and political theorists including Cornel West bell hooks and Angela Davis