Marcia G. Yerman: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song at Von Lintel Gallery: Examines Cultural Issues
In 1971, Melvin Van Peeble’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song exploded onto the American scene. Huey P. Newton, writing about its impact in that year’s June 19th issue of The Black Panther, qualified it as “the first truly revolutionary Black film made…by a Black man.” Van Peebles, who wrote, d …
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