Rolling Stone

Melvin Van Peebles, ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song’ Director, Dead at 89

Melvin Van Peebles, the influential indie filmmaker who helped spawn the Blaxploitation genre with his 1971 film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song, has died at the ...
Hypebeast

Melvin Tanaya of Song for the Mute Shares His Father's Day Essentials

This latest Essentials celebrates fatherhood with Father’s Day just around the corner. Joining us is Song for the Mute‘s Melvin Tanaya — a new father of two with both children under the age of two.
Variety

Melvin Van Peebles, Influential Director, Actor and Writer, Dies at 89

Melvin Van Peebles, the groundbreaking filmmaker behind “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song,” and father of director and actor Mario Van Peebles, has died. He was 89. “Sweet Sweetback” was a ...
IndieWire

Mario Van Peebles on His Father’s Greatest Legacy: ‘He Put Black Power on the Screen for the First Time’

Four days after Melvin Van Peebles' death, his son joined NYFF to salute his father's iconic "Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song." “This film was made at a time when you didn’t really see Black people ...