A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.A fertile creative force, he wrote fiction and musicals but is best known for a breakthrough movie that heralded the genre known as blaxploitation.Read MoreBlack People, Movies, Race and Ethnicity, Deaths (Obituaries), van Peebles, Melvin, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Movie), The Story of a Three-Day Pass (Movie), Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Play)
