Actor-writer-director-composer Melvin Van Peebles—a Renaissance man who promoted Black economic empowerment and helped usher in a new era of Black filmmaking with his best-known work, the 1971 film ...

Melvin Van Peebles, the influential filmmaker behind "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died. He was 89. "Dad knew that Black images matter," ...

To try to breeze through the accomplishments of award-winning writer, director, playwright, composer, and auteur Melvin Van Peebles would be more like making your way through an onslaught of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker, playwright and musician whose work ushered in the “blaxploitation” wave of the 1970s and influenced filmmakers long after, has died.

Last November, the Houston Cinema Arts Festival decided to close out its festivities with a 50th anniversary screening of “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” the 1971 movie that set off the ...

We the Party, opening on April 6th, is an independent film directed and produced by Mario Van Peebles. If that sounds familiar, it's because over the past twenty years, Mario has written, directed, ...