Search results for "Essex Hemphill"
Anthem

Anthem

Anthem
IMDb: 6.2
9

A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

Genre: Music
Affirmations

Affirmations

Affirmations
IMDb: 6.9
10

A look at what it’s like to be gay and black in America.

Genre: Documentary
Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t
IMDb: 7.7
87

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….

Genre: Documentary
Tongues Untied

Tongues Untied

Tongues Untied
IMDb: 7.1
55

Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting…

Genre: Documentary