Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's hard to remember what came first: Catching the 1971 detective story Shaft one late night on a UHF station, or listening to my ...

Legacy of the films and the television series of the same name dating from the 70s featuring a Harlem cop with unorthodox but effective methods. Here, it is the nephew of John SHAFT (actually his son) ...

The blaxploitation movies of the '70s are great, but they're not, for the most part, good. These were cheap movies, made quickly. The editing was slapdash. The dialogue was hokey. A lot of the lead ...

With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar playing and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs but ...