Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89
A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.
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Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89
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