The star of early-'70s action pictures stopped by the 'It Happened in Hollywood' podcast to discuss movie history and the ...

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and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space. It was basically a political marketing ploy.” Yet Grier clarified that there is not only blaxploitation onscreen ...

Those movies, which still draw sold-out revival house crowds 50 years later, are now commonly referred to as “blaxploitation” pictures — a term Grier says was introduced by marketers at ...