Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 87m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Marlon Riggs
- Stars: Marlon Riggs, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Essex Hemphill, Cornel West
- keywords: black lgbt, creole, african american, black intellectual, black identity
- Production_studio: Signifyin' Works
- providers: OVID
- The Black Is… Black Ain’t is featured in the top rankings of 1994
- #15 in Top Documentary Movies of 1994
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from popular hip-hop songs juxtaposed with interviews with African-American intellectuals and political theorists, including Cornel West, bell hooks and Angela Davis.