Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994)

"Black Is… Black Ain’t" is a 1994 Documentary movie directed by Marlon Riggs and starring by Marlon Riggs, Angela Davis. 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.