Pre-Blaxploitation Era
LATEST EPISODE
Episode 10: Cotton Comes to Harlem
Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Cotton Comes To Harlem. Directed by the great Ossie Davis, starring Gilbert Godfrey and Raymond St. Jacques as "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin' Ed Johnson as two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that Rev. Deke O'Malley played by Calvin Lockhart, have staged it to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser. It also stars and features Redd Foxx, Cleavon Little, and other greats. Based on Chester Himes' novel of the same name.
Episode 1:
The films: 1. The Cool World (1963) 2. Black Like Me (1964) 3. The Black Klansman aka I Crossed The Colored Line (1966) 4. The BlacKkKlansman (2018) 5. The Klansman (1974)
Episode 2:Putney Swope/Uptight
Putney Swope (1969) by Robert Downey Sr. starring Arnold Johnson feat. Antonio Fargas. Uptight (1968) drama on the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Episode 3:Halls of Anger/Slaves
We’re talking Calvin Lockhart as a teacher in L.A. in ‘Halls Of Anger,’ & Ossie Davis, as a slave, with the film debut of Dionne Warwick as a slave-masters mistress in ‘Slaves.’
The Unofficial Episodes
Before we get into the groove, we have to lay down the underlying foundation to the Blaxploitation Era of the 1970’s. The race relations, politics and society played a great part in shaping what’s to become the genre that styled and saved the motion picture industry, one pimp, gangsta and hoe at a time!
This episode, hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn introduce themselves to you.
Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn. Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss the blaxploitation genre. The Good, The Bad, and The Uglies.
Hosts Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn, discuss tieing in their love for the genre, media, and politics.