Contributor Richard Watson

A woman in a dark jacket holding a gun, aiming it at the viewer. The image is lit by a warm red light, casting a dramatic shadow on the wall behind her.
Women In Film

Proud Mary and the return of the black female action hero

by Richard Watson

Taraji P Henson’s gun-toting assassin harks back to an era of Lola Colt, Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones.

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