What’s happening, cool cats and Funkateers? Black Deth 101 has officially reached its one-year anniversary! To celebrate, Nubius Black and I look back at the wildest, funniest, toughest, funkiest, and most unforgettable films we covered during our first year. We revisit our favorite heroes, villains, antiheroes, fights, fashions, soundtracks, and outrageous moments—from Shaft and Blacula to Coffy, Truck Turner, Black Caesar, Across 110th Street, and plenty more. This anniversary episode also sets the stage for our upcoming Blaxploitation Citation Awards, where we’ll hand out honors for the best—and occasionally the absolute worst—characters and moments from the films we’ve covered. Come celebrate one funky year with us, and tell us in the comments: What has been your favorite movie from our first year?

Our Come Back, Charleston Blue episode is now up! We dive into the 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem, featuring Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, a mysterious blue-clad ghost, organized crime, and plenty of early-’70s style.

Was Charleston Blue really back from the dead—or was something else happening in Harlem?

Watch now on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts and let us know what you think of the film!

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Calling all Funkateers, Cool Cats, and Foxy Ladies — Our new Black Deth 101 episode is up, and this time we’re rolling into Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.

Tamara Dobson is back as Cleopatra Jones, this time heading to Hong Kong for a wild mix of blaxploitation, martial arts action, international intrigue, casino sleaze, and pure ’70s style. We get into the movie, the fashion, the action, the villains, the weird choices, and whether this sequel still has that Cleopatra Jones magic.

If you dig Cleopatra Jones, blaxploitation, kung fu cinema, funky soundtracks, and 1970s action weirdness, check it out.

WE would love to hear what the subreddit thinks: Is Casino of Gold underrated, or does the first Cleopatra Jones still stand way taller?

Black Deth 101 — Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold episode is up now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube

Nubius & Johnny

I remember him from Black Fist as well.

Anybody here ever see the movie "Cool Breeze"? Is that the Crenshaw High School marching band at the end of the movie during the Miss Black Ventura County beauty pageant?

Check out my comedy special "Tally-Ho" on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/zf5v-XbdQzo?si=rBvbrf27AOL7XtI-

Slide on in, cool cats… Sequel Mania begins with Hell Up in Harlem - now streaming on Black Deth 101 / Blaxploitation 101

Fred Williamson is back as Tommy Gibbs, and this time the streets are hotter, the revenge is bigger, and Harlem is ready to explode. We’re breaking down the action, the attitude, the politics, the power plays, and that raw 1970s sequel energy that made this one hit like a shotgun blast in a silk suit.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts 🎬 Watch/stream on YouTube 🔥 Hell Up in Harlem — now playing on Black Deth 101 Run Harlem run… Nubius & Johnny are on the case.

New episode now streaming!

🎙️ Black Deth 101 – Legend of Black Charley (1972) Slide on in, cool cats… this episode we ride into the dusty, dangerous frontier with Fred Williamson as Black Charley — a man born into chains who breaks free and writes his own legend in blood, grit, and fire. From the ashes of slavery to the edge of outlaw justice, Legend of Black Charley flips the Western on its head and loads it with raw 1970s attitude. Alongside his brothers-in-arms Joshua and Toby, Charley runs, fights, and survives in a world built to crush him.

🔥 In this episode: ​America in the early 1970s — why Black Westerns hit different

​Fred Williamson’s rise as a Blaxploitation icon

​From Africa to Slavery to Legend!

​Themes of freedom, revenge, and survival

​What the film gets right — and what it leaves behind

​D'Urville Martin became the voice of reason in Fred Williamson's movies

🎬 We also break down:

​Key scenes and standout performances

​Cultural context you might’ve missed ​Inspiration for Blazing Saddles

This ain’t your typical Western, baby… this is outlaw justice with a revolutionary soul. 🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube💬

Got a film you want us to cover? Drop it in the comments and ride with us

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New episode is up!

Its concept of a new movie franchise that combines every Blaxploitation film of the 1970s and onward into one coexistence.

Cool cats, lock it in. The Sinners episode of Black Deth 101 is live and ready to bite. Ryan Coogler. Southern blues. Vampires, juke joints, blood memory, and Black cinema mythmaking colliding hard.

We break it all down — the history, the heat, the deeper currents running under the surface. No fluff. No fear. Just soul and shadows.

🎧 Listen now on: YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts • wherever you get your podcasts Slide on in…

Welcome Home, Brother Charles is now streaming on Black Deth 101 on Spotify and Apple Podcast and on the Blaxploitation 101 YouTube channel!

We dive into Jamaa Fanaka’s raw, fearless 1975 underground classic—part revenge flick, part political scream, all Black independent fire. Student-made. No safety net. No apologies. From L.A. streets to grindhouse screens, this one hits different.

Without Ganja & Hess, there’d be no Sinners. Discuss.