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Black Is … Black Ain’t

In many sequences, African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs addresses the camera from his hospital bed before his death in 1994 from issues connected to AIDS. Clips of hip-hop songs with sexist and homophobic obscenities are paired with interviews of prominent black intellectuals and political theorists like Cornel West, bell hooks, and Angela Davis to discuss the prevalence of these attitudes among the black community.

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