Marlon Riggs, an African-American documentary filmmaker, died in 1994 from AIDS-related complications while working on this final film; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. With snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists such as Cornel West, bell hooks, and Angela Davis, the film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community.
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Marlon Riggs, an African-American documentary filmmaker, died in 1994 from AIDS-related complications while working on this final film; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. With snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists such as Cornel West, bell hooks, and Angela Davis, the film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community.
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