Richard Roundtree, the pioneering actor who starred as “Shaft,” the ultra-smooth private detective in several 1970s blaxploitation films, has died at the age of 81, according to the Associated Press.

What would Hollywood be without a good ole Blaxploitation film? And now that “They Cloned Tyrone” has hit Netflix screens, conversations about the Blaxploitation movies that crawled so that “They ...

Read full article: 📈Best-performing Florida stocks last week In September, prices inflated by 0.1% compared to August, and were up 2.4% from September 2022 The 1970s gave rise to an audacious ...

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 ...

Film Forum will be presenting a group of films dating largely from the genre’s heyday, the early 1970s, under the title “Blaxploitation, Baby!” Has this series been mounted as an air-conditioned ...

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 ...

Mike Myers says he likes the style of 1970s blaxploitation films, and he's borrowing from the genre for the third "Austin Powers" movie. "It's such a yummy flavor -- the language, the music, the ...