The jazz-funk score to Coffy stands alongside the twin pillars of Shaft and Super Fly, bringing the bongos to every future ...

This soul-drenched soundtrack became one of soul music’s earliest concept double albums upon being released in 1971 for the ...

And so did the term blaxploitation. Grier says the action films were a product of their time — and were not only limited to Black themes. “There was white exploitation, Black exploitation.

Those movies, which still draw sold-out revival house crowds 50 years later, are now commonly referred to as “blaxploitation” pictures — a term Grier says was introduced by marketers at ...