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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

film by Van Peebles [1971]

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blaxploitation movies

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Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is usually considered to be the first of many Black-themed movies that would present a new film image of African Americans.
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…wrote, directed, and starred in Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), a groundbreaking film that spearheaded the rush of African American action films known as "blaxploitation" in the 1970s. He also served as the film’s composer and editor.
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