establishing a Hollywood template that Black action roles have either been referencing or pushing back against since. The Blaxploitation era of the 1970s was followed by genre films helmed by ...

didn’t get a whole series of movies like Dirty Harry is a tragedy for action fans, though we did get an equally great follow-up to “Black Eye” in the form of 1975’s “Boss Nigger ...

In the 1970s, one of the greatest and most underrated decades for action movies, you could still see ... the still-living grand architects behind Black excellence in cinema (go look up the NEC ...

The documentary title Is That Black Enough For You?!? comes from many different sources. The phrase is a reference to the 1970 film Cotton Comes to Harlem, co-written and directed by Ossie Davis.

Here are 12 Black women who have stepped into the spotlight, leading some of the most electrifying action films. Pam Grier made her mark in the 1970s with the role of Coffy, a nurse turned ...