Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, which turns 50 this month, is the opposite of the definition imposed on it. The 1971 film inspired the Blaxploitation genre, but Melvin Van Peebles exploited no one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the year-long series Sounds Of Blaxploitation, Craig D. Lindsey plays the hits that defined a genre, drawing connections ...

Melvin Van Peebles, the influential indie filmmaker who helped spawn the Blaxploitation genre with his 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song, has died at the ...

Actor, writer, director, and cinema icon Melvin Van Peebles died on September 21, 2021 at age 89. A prolific creator and father of actor Mario Van Peebles, Melvin was known for his fierce dedication ...

Melvin Van Peebles’s landmark movie opened the door not only for black film-making but for independent movies in general “This film is dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who had enough of the ...

This past weekend, while most pop culture watchers were debating the latest entry in the Tyler Perry oeuvre — and moviegoers parting with a collective $25 million in order to see it — an historical ...

In this occasional series, Jon Brooks looks at films that illustrate different aspects of California culture. Melvin Van Peebles said he made Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, released in 1971, ...

At an early screening of his groundbreaking 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song,” Melvin Van Peebles sat in a theater observing an all-black audience’s reaction. Toward the end of the movie, ...

"You're Gone (Again)" "It Don't Show on Me" "My Uncle Used to Love Me (But She Died) ""I Want to Be a Real Cowboy Girl" With superb musicianship and an appreciation for times gone by, The Sweetback ...

With his third feature, from 1971, the writer and director Melvin Van Peebles ripped to shreds the stereotypes of middle-class respectability that Hollywood then imposed on Black actors. He also stars ...