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A Black congressman from Detroit announces his run for Michigan governor in the ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel. After he collects $400,000 for his campaign in money and jewels from Black ...

Prolific producer and director Arthur Marks, who worked on “Perry Mason” and blaxploitation movies including “Detroit 9000” and “Friday Foster,” has died. He was 92. Marks died Nov. 13 at his home in ...

Denigrated as exploitative, borderline-racist trash during the era in which they were made, then mostly forgotten during the Cosbified '80s, early-'70s blaxploitation films have made a comeback of ...

Arthur Marks, the producer and director who worked on 'Perry Mason' for nearly a decade before guiding such blaxploitation favorites as 'Detroit 9000,' 'Friday Foster' and 'Bucktown,' has died. He was ...