Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a ...

This year, I’ve been celebrating Black History Month with a Blaxploitation movie marathon. So far, I’ve hit plenty of the classics: Shaft, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, and Dolemite. Although ...

We speak with author and culture critic Odie Henderson about his latest book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited ...

The Blaxploitation classic Black Caesar gave James Brown his first shot at a soundtrack and one of his best nicknames.

"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn’t support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." “They ...

*Get ready to groove with the baddest films of the ‘70s! We’re thrilled to partner with Shout! TV for an exciting giveaway to celebrate their all-day Blaxploitation marathon streaming on June 14.

As a preteen growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too ...

FLASH BACK HALF A CENTURY. New York City is at its grittiest state in years. As our movie opens, a camera hovers above Times Square before slowly panning down and zooming in. Theater marquees show ...

In the 1970s, African-American filmmakers cranked up the black action movie by adding elements of such genres as the western, kung fu, and horror, as well as soundtracks by the likes of Curtis ...

Films starring Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, and more will screen. The indie theater announced the upcoming festival which will take place August 16 through August 22.

When Halle Berry and Denzel Washington won Oscars in this year’s much discussed Black Hollywood moment, they paid their respects to Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier, not to Pam Grier and Richard ...