Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a ...

Vonetta McGee, 65, an actress who played leading roles in blaxploitation films including "Blacula" and "Shaft in Africa," died July 9 at a hospital in Berkeley, Calif. She suffered cardiac arrest and ...

Judy Pace, a model and actor known for her roles in 1970s Blaxploitation films, TV's Peyton Place and the groundbreaking telefilm Brian's Song, has died. She was 83. The star's daughters Shawn and ...

Michael Jai White has been in a lot of film and TV projects over the last 35 years or so. But probably most beloved amongst his fans is "Black Dynamite," the 2009 sendup of 1970s blaxploitation movies ...

Judy Pace, a model and actress known for her roles in 1970s Blaxploitation films, TV’s Peyton Place and the groundbreaking ...

When you think of Black cinema in the ’70s, images of XL afros, platform shoes, big guns and even bigger personalities likely come to mind. But beyond the legacy of fun catchphrases and iconic imagery ...

As a preteen growing up in New Jersey, Odie Henderson saw a tremendous number of wildly inappropriate movies. Take age 4, an especially big, bad year for Henderson and inarguably too young to be ...

The Blaxploitation film era is, for better or worse, a cornerstone in the foundation of modern Black history. The subgenre, a portmanteau of Black and exploitation, came at critical time between the ...