Melvin Van Peebles will always be known as the man who not only changed black cinema but independent cinema forever when he made his groundbreaking (and taboo breaking) film Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. But’s he’s always been a,lot more than that. A playwright, actor, author, stage performer, musician and who knows what else he’s done in his 80 years and he’s not through yet.
But how did a guy who grew up on the hard bitten streets on the South side of Chicago go from there to becoming a filmmaker, aTony-nominated playwright, an Air Force navigator, a novelist in two languages, a pioneer of the rap genre, a floor trader at the American Stock Exchange among…
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