Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994)

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994) - Documentary Movies 87 minutes. . 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. black lgbt, creole, african american, black intellectual, black identity