Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Look, I wasn’t there (or even alive), but I heard about the performance.
The movie I came up with was Robert Townsend’s “The Five Heartbeats,” the movie that was number 2 on my ten best list back in 1991 (behind “Boyz N The Hood”). I should explain what “Blackfamous” is.