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

"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn't support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and ...

The jazz-funk score to Coffy stands alongside the twin pillars of Shaft and Super Fly, bringing the bongos to every future ...

which you could happily stick on between Isaac Hayes' Shaft and Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man without anyone noticing too drastic a drop in class. Blaxploitation movies were suddenly so hot in 1972 ...

MGM Studios released the first big budget Hollywood blaxploitation film Shaft, which went on to win an Oscar. The statuette was awarded to long-time Stax records artist and arranger Isaac Hayes ...

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime ... The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

Then we had Shaft, we had Superfly ... Grier says there is even an element of feminism to the term “blaxploitation”— because it wasn’t in use until she became a movie star with Coffy.