When Samuel L. Jackson hits theaters today in Shaft, the latest installment of a franchise that debuted in 1971, most eyes will fixate on the man himself. After all, the character’s swagger and ...

There’s bad trash – those summer movies on the order of “M:I2” and “Gone in 60 Seconds,” whose cardinal emotional effect on filmgoers is the feeling that they’ve been bludgeoned to death by the ...

“Shaft,” starring Richard Roundtree, created a template for Black action protagonists onscreen. By Elena Bergeron As unthinkable as it now seems, the role of John Shaft, paragon of movie star Black ...

Staff at Stax Records’ headquarters, at 926 East McLemore Avenue in South Memphis, were elated. Released on Stax’s Enterprise subsidiary, Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack to the movie Shaft had become their ...