Essay
Pam Grier: In Her Own Words
The first American-born female action star, one of the pre-eminent sex symbols of the 1970s, and a fiercely self-reliant, independent woman who reshaped dramatically the representation of Black women onscreen, Pam Grier’s cinematic persona was a remarkable combination of toughness and tenderness that made her the undisputed queen of the blaxploitation boom. In interviews and…
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