A personal journey through Black identity
Original title
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Released
10/11/1995
Origin country
US
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
Signifyin' Works
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
1hr 27min
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.
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