Blaxploitation
'Sweet Sweetback,' Blaxploitation's Beginning: Facts An...
August 21, 2020
Actor/director Melvin Van Peebles in New York City, 1971. He is posing outside a cinema which is showing his action thriller 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'...
Lola Falana: From Sammy Davis Jr. Protegee To Queen Of ...
June 10, 2019
Left: Publicity photo of Lola Falana circa 1970. Right: Lola Falana portrait from CBS-TV. Source: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Wikimedia Commons Lola F...
Tamara Dobson As Cleopatra Jones: Blaxploitation's Forg...
June 1, 2019
Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones. Left: a detail of the UK poster for the first movie (1973). Right: from the poster for the sequel, Cleopatra Jones And The Cas...
Pam Grier: From 'Foxy Brown' And 'Coffy' To 'Jackie Bro...
March 1, 2019
Actress Pam Grier poses for a photo circa 1972 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) Pam Grier has gone by a lot of names o...
