In the movie Shaft, Richard Roundtree gave life to an alchemy of arrogance and attitude, confidence and charisma, swagger and sexuality never-before-seen on screen in a dark-skinned African ...

I paid to see the movie Shaft seven times in the early 1970s.I still watch it, more than 35 years later, whenever it comes on television.They just don’t make black heroes like Shaft anymore ...

John D.F. Black, who co-wrote the screenplay for Shaft and wrote and produced for the original Star Trek series, has died. He was 85. Black died Nov. 29 of natural causes at home in Woodland Hills ...

On July 2, 1971, moviegoers caught their first glimpse of Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, the "black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks." On July 2, 1971, ...

OPINION: Richard Roundtree's groundbreaking portrayal of John Shaft was a turning point for Black art, culture and self-identity, but it is also a superhero origin story. In 2018, while writing a ...

The original Shaft’s sexual immorality (“sex machine with all the chicks”) has apparently been replaced, in the latest incarnation, by a trait more politically correct: brutality.

The film Shaft is a modern tale about Black manhood today and an excellent starting point for a conversation between men and women on what manhood is.

Tim Story’s remake of 'Shaft,' starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher and Richard Roundtree, will screen as the opening-night film at the American Black Film Festival.

As Gordon Parks’ blaxploitation classic “Shaft,” released nationwide on July 2, 1971, celebrates its 50th anniversary, a proper revision of its ethos is overdue. An anachronistic “Shaft ...

Editor’s note: Sam Fulwood III is a writer and veteran news correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. In the 1971 film “Shaft,” Richard ...