Black Is… Black Ain’t (movie)
- User score: 6.1
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Marlon Riggs
- Production companies: Signifyin' Works
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 6/1/1994
- Run time: 87 min.
Movie description
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.
