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Article: Black History? // Director Peebles Defends Controversial New Film
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 7, 1995
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Dressed in baggy black pants, an oversized shirt and a black cap
touting the name of his latest film, "Panther," Mario Van Peebles
sits barefoot in his suite at a downtown Chicago hotel. A neat
goatee does little to disguise the chiseled face that became his
calling card in films such as "Posse" and "New Jack City." For
"Panther," he spends most of him time behind the camera; Peebles
directed and co-produced the film with his father, Melvin Van
Peebles.
Based on the elder Van Peebles' book about The Black Panther
Party, the father-son team has made a controversial film that has
been slammed by members of the former Panther Party as well as
conservatives who say the film is a ...