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Here are a few important points to remember about the Signifyin' Works documentary flick. Black Is… Black Ain’t starring Marlon Riggs, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Essex Hemphill has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 27 min. The release date of the movie is October 11th, 1995. The movie received a user score of 56/100 on TMDb, which was calculated from reviews from 11 engaged users.
Curious about the story behind it? Here's the plot: "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."
