Topic: blaxploitation

Shaft, lobbycard, Richard Roundtree, 1971. (LMPC via Getty Images)

Shaft star Richard Roundtree dies at 81

Nardos Haile
Elvis Mitchell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elvis Mitchell reframes '70s Black films

Melanie McFarland
A still from the movie "The Spook Who Sat By the Door"

Sam Greenlee, dead at 83

Neil Drumming