Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)

A personal journey through Black identity

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.

Date of release
1995-10-11
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Marlon Riggs

Casting

Interesting facts

Black Is... Black Ain't is a 1995 award-winning feature-length documentary by Marlon Riggs. It explores the multiplicity of expressions of African-American identity.

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