Review: Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song

Melvin Van Peeble's classic, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, is credited with starting that whole “Blacksplotation” genre. After this movie became a success, the character of Shaft was changed from white to black. If it wasn't for this movie, we wouldn???t have a Foxy Brown or a Superfly today.
Van Pebbles struggle to get this film [...]

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