Film icon Pam Grier is clarifying her take on the blaxploitation genre term itself, 50 years after her Black-led crime films like “Coffy” and “Foxy Brown” emerged as cult classics. “They coined it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those movies, which still draw sold-out revival house crowds 50 years later, are now commonly referred to as “blaxploitation” ...

With Women Of Action, Caroline Siede digs into the history of women-driven action movies to explore what these stories say about gender and how depictions of female action heroes have evolved over ...

In early March 2025, jazz-funk legend Roy Ayers died at the age of 84. The veteran vibraphonist is known as one of the original progenitors of acid-jazz and neo-soul, twinkling the keys on such ...