Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was the original “black power” movie, a gritty and exciting tale of a black man on the run from racist cops. But although it was a huge financial ...

But for us, he is the OG - the original gangster, the director of big-screen entertainment. He is the inspiration for a lot of us filmmakers, who were only assistant directors then." "He gave us ...