Obituary: Melvin Van Peebles, an independent filmmaker known for the film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 89.
While Van Peebles was known for the film ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,’ and other films and plays, he also worked as an options trader and wrote a book on the subject
Melvin Van Peebles, regarded as the ‘godfather of modern Black cinema,’ in front of a newly unveiled beach changing-booth in his name in France during the Deauville American Film Festival in 2012.
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