The late Marlon Riggs (1957-94) captured a cultural movement in his 1989 music- and poetry-driven documentary "Tongues Untied: Black Men Loving Black Men." It plays the Roxie on Wed., Feb. 20, at 7 ...

Filmmaker-writer-activist Marlon Riggs challenged popular — even progressive — culture when his video documentary depicting Black gay men with their “Tongues Untied” was banned by television stations ...

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The late activist, scholar, and filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs wanted to bury the silence and exhume the voice, especially when it came to conversations and stories about Black people, and specifically ...

Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, ...

Made, in director Marlon Riggs’ own words, to “shatter this nation’s brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference,” Tongues Untied is a bold and beautiful film centering the ...

Three women and one man have decided that Tampa Bay's 1,349,730 TV households won't be able to watch Tongues Untied, a one-hour PBS documentary on gay black men. The four people serve on the community ...