The low-budget film, "Sweet Sweetback's Song," opens in a 1971 Detroit cinema and strikes a liberating blow for a whole generation of young African-American women and men.

Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was the original “black power” movie, a gritty and exciting tale of a black man on the run from racist cops. But although it was a huge financial ...

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Van Peebles, famous for 1970s films including Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss ... came with a year later with Sweetback, a Blaxploitation film about of a black man trying to ...