*Actor Fred “The Hammer” Williamson rose to prominence as one of the first African-American male action stars of the “blaxploitation” genre of the early 1970s. He has since had a long and illustrious ...

Blaxploitation is a genre whose iconography has, through time, repetition and reduction, come to be defined by kitsch. The term immediately conjures images of bad ass afro-clad Black men and women ...