Pam celebrates these films with the funky soundtracks and interesting stories that were given the unfortunate name of “blaxploitation” movies. She considers their musical legacy, and their wider impact, particularly in terms of the film roles that were available to black actors before and after that period. (via BBC - BBC Radio 2 Programmes - Radio 2’s Summer of Soul, Super Bad, Super Cool)
Stuff I find. And like. Obviously.
When I set out to make a documentary about black women who are “transitioning”...
THICKNESS #3 cover by Edie Fake (type & logo by Michael DeForge)
Debuting at CAKE - June 16,...
From the first print of “Der Doktor Faustus” by German poet Heinrich Heine
A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Photo: Clyde Woods.