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

Pam Grier explained how the origin of the term 'blaxploitation' was meant to deter Black audiences from theaters.

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

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

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 ...

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.