In February during Work with Karen its Black HER-Story Month where we are celebrating Black History month with #SheFacts of female trailblazers. Why We Love Her: Today we are honoring one the original stone cold foxy ladies of the 70’s, Ms. Pamela Grier. She played roles that were known as “Blaxploitation” She insisted the portrayals were the ugly elements of […]
Are you not getting your black cinema fix with your current streaming provider? Well, the Brown Sugar streaming service may be just what you need. The new service is filled with black film classics including The Mack, Shaft, Super Fly, Dolemite, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Foxy Brown, Blacula, Uptown Saturday Night, Cooley High, Coffy, Black […]
When people hear the name Pam Grier, several quotes and sayings from many of her Blaxploitation films may come to mind. Grier, now 66, was the…
Help us in wishing the lovely actress Pam Grier a happy 66th birthday! Pam Grier became famous in the early 1970s after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitationfilms like The Big Bird Cage (1972), Coffy (1973), Foxy Brown (1974) and Sheba Baby (1975).
Men in industrial tailored suits weren’t the only people breaking racial barriers. These beautiful women fought with their talents and charm rather than protests and sit-ins (not that there’s anything wrong with the latter) to condemn racial injustice. These audacious women made history, here’s there contributions to Black history. We bet this wasn’t in your […]
Sex, crime and drugs were the primary ingredients to a perfect Blaxploitation film. If you were lucky, having Pam Grier play your groovy bombshell would get you the blockbuster film of the year. Grier’s roles may have always appeared to be the same (crime-fighting sex machine), but each plot was different. TAKE TV ONE’S POLL: […]
This Tuesday Latifah and Common’s romantic comedy Just Wright comes to DVD. In this interview actor James Pickens, Jr., who played Latifah’s father LLoyd in the film, shares what it was like being married to Pam Grier in the flick and how it almost didn’t happen.
In one of the most engaging interviews we’ve seen with Drake, quirky Canadian journalist Nardwuar asked Drizzy about everything from his song with Little Brother, the trunk of bras that he takes with him on tour to movie icon Pam Grier. After gazing at an autographed copy of the soundtrack to Coffee Drake confessed that […]
