Mario Van Peebles unquestionably broke the paradigm for how African Americans are portrayed in the film business as a whole.

Photo by: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Mario Van Peebles, director, and actor, makes some strong statements about his 1991 crime thriller New Jack City. According to him, people have acknowledged the 65-year-film old’s helping them overcome their drug addictions. “We made that victim Chris Rock, who so took you in that we deglamorized the f–k out […]