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The Shocking History of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: The Indie Movie That Shocked Hollywood
In 1971, Hollywood received a message it could not comfortably ignore. A fiercely independent filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles had made a movie outside the studio system about a Black man who attacks racist police officers, survives a massive manhunt, escapes across the Mexican border, and—most shockingly for American