"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn't support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." ...

The star of early-'70s action pictures stopped by the 'It Happened in Hollywood' podcast to discuss movie history and the making of 1997's 'Jackie Brown.' ...

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 ...

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.