Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
A personal journey through Black identity
87 min
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.
- Release date
- October 11, 1995
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Angela Davis as Self
- Essex Hemphill as Self
- bell hooks as Self
- Bill T. Jones as Self
- B. Smith as Self
- Michele Wallace as Self
- Cornel West as Self
Crew
- Marlon Riggs · Director
- David Lautrec · Producer
- Marlon Riggs · Producer
- Mary Watkins · Composer
- Robert Shepard · Cinematographer
- Christiane Badgley · Editor