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Melvin Van Peebles, Icon of Black Cinema, Dies at 89

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announced the news of his passing on Wednesday. He died on Tuesday night at his home. No cause of death was given. “In an unparalleled career distinguished by relentless innovation, boundless curiosity and spiritual empathy, Melvin Van Peebles made an indelible mark on the international cultural landscape through his films, novels, plays and music,” the statement read. “Dad knew that Black images matter.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a movie worth? We want to be the success we see, thus we need to see ourselves being free,” Mario Van Peebles wrote in a statement. “True liberation did not mean imitating the colonizer’s mentality.

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