Foxy Brown

Shawnna Battles Swine Flu and The Sexes

source: AllHipHop

We always thought Foxy [Brown] and Jay-Z would come out with an album after 'Ain't No N***a.' Why wait for somebody else to do it?” Ludacris concurred, telling AllHipHop.com, “We're giving that male vs. female perspective not yet done on one Hip-Hop ...

Published Thu, May 7

New bookstore brings street literature to the masses

source: Business Gazette

 MD - Joshua Garner, Joshua Garner and founder of Karibu Books, a popular African-American literature retail chain that closed in 2008, said that street literature often plays on stereotypes, comparing it to "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s such as "Shaft" and "Foxy Brown. ...

Published Thu, Apr 30

Free women

source: mydigitalfc.com

 India paintings that depict black women in different guises: posed demurely in their Sunday best as if for church, sprawled naked like sirens or vamping in vixenish outfits that suggest the 1970s blaxploitation heroines Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown. ...

Published Thu, Apr 23

3 Years Probation For Hip Hop Artist Foxy Brown

source: CDInsight

 NY Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, claims she was recovering from a tooth extraction, must now submit a sample of her DNA, undergo periodic drug testing, and was ordered to stay away from the manicurists for the next five years. ...

Published Mon, Apr 13

A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones

source: New York Times

 United States paintings that depict black women in different guises: posed demurely in their Sunday best as if for church, sprawled naked like sirens or vamping in vixenish outfits that suggest the 1970s blaxploitation heroines Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown. ...

Published Fri, Apr 10

Happy Birthday, Quentin Tarantino, Director of “Pulp Fiction”

source: findingDulcinea

 New York In a well-received blast from the past, Tarantino resuscitated the career of Pam Grier, who had starred in 70s blaxploitation films such as “Foxy Brown.” In typical Tarantino style, “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Vol. ...

Published Thu, Mar 26

Film terms you should know: blaxploitation

source: Examiner.com

Blaxploitation ranges from popular films like Foxy Brown (1971), Shaft (1971), and Dolemite (1975) (Warning: graphic language and situations lie in wait on the other side of this link), to lesser known ones, the names of which would likely ring no ...

Published Tue, Mar 10

Easy to Catalog, Hard to Love

source: Chicago Reader

Waddell has a bit more success reclaiming blaxploitation efforts like Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which feature Pam Grier on a vendetta against assorted scumbags. These movies at least showcase a black woman kicking white-boy butt, and so can be seen ...

Published Wed, Feb 25