Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 1971. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Starring Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, Simon Chuckster, and John Dullugan. SYNOPSIS: After saving a young Black Panther member from a beating by a pair of white police officers, a black man named Sweetback goes on the run hoping to find freedom in Mexico. With […]