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Melvin Van Peebles, icon of Black cinema, dead at 89

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Filmmaker and author Melvin Van Peebles has died at the age of 89.The rebel director known for his groundbreaking "blaxploitation" films, passed on Sept.

21 surrounded by his family, the Criterion Collection announced. "Dad knew that Black images matter," his son Mario Van Peebles said in a statement released by Criterion. "If a picture is worth a thousand words, what was a movie worth?

We want to be the success we see, thus we need to see ourselves being free.True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer’s mentality.

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