The Criterion Collection released the original Shaft on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. The 4K edition keeps ‘70s film look, like 8MM home movies but in high definition and with all the colors of the era, plus ...

NEW YORK — Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with The Learning Tree and ...

Editor’s note: Sam Fulwood III is a writer and veteran news correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. In the 1971 film “Shaft,” Richard Roundtree — ...

Richard Roundtree, an icon of Blaxploitation film who starred as detective John Shaft in Gordon Parks’ 1971 action thriller, died Tuesday afternoon after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. Richard Roundtree's portrayal of Shaft broke barriers and ...

Since October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has featured an exhibit titled “Gordon Parks: Stokely Carmichael and Black Power,” which displays all the pictures the African-American photographer ...

Life always was calling for Gordon Parks. A high school dropout and the youngest of 15 children, Parks landed one of his first jobs as a piano player in a Minneapolis, Minn., brothel. By his mid-20s, ...

John Singleton was only 3 years old when he went to see Shaft with his father in 1971. "My father used to always say, and he looked a lot like Richard Roundtree too, that someone saw him walking down ...

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NEW YORK – Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" ...