Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking and innovative filmmaker, writer, and musician known as the Godfather of Black Cinema, has died at 89. Van Peebles’ family issued a statement announcing he passed Tuesday evening at his home in Manhattan. ‘This Isn’t About Good People or Bad People’: The Root […]
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