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Release date: Jun 7, 2019
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Avant's skin color is one aspect of his inspiring story, for sure, but the heart inside "The Black Godfather" - and the ways an honorable soul with personal power can effect meaningful change - spins its own joyful melody. Jun 6, 2019 | Full Review…
Avant's skin color is one aspect of his inspiring story, for sure, but the heart inside "The Black Godfather" - and the ways an honorable soul with personal power can effect meaningful change - spins its own joyful melody.
Robert Abele
This is a predictably uncritical portrait, one whose constant stream of praise would be tiresome if these stories weren't so unfamiliar to most viewers. Jun 6, 2019 | Full Review…
This is a predictably uncritical portrait, one whose constant stream of praise would be tiresome if these stories weren't so unfamiliar to most viewers.
John DeFore
The anecdotes are gold. Jun 6, 2019 | Full Review…
The anecdotes are gold.
Ben Kenigsberg
Does yeoman's work introducing a figure that few outsiders have likely heard of, but who needs no introduction in the power corridors of the entertainment industry. Jun 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Does yeoman's work introducing a figure that few outsiders have likely heard of, but who needs no introduction in the power corridors of the entertainment industry.
Andrew Barker
Imagine Janet Jackson's signature sound without the beats of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Imagine if Soul Train had been buried by a Dick Clark knockoff. Thanks to The Black Godfather- Clarence Avant we don't have to! Kudos to Netflix and Reggie Hudlin Jun 14, 2019 | Full Review…
Imagine Janet Jackson's signature sound without the beats of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Imagine if Soul Train had been buried by a Dick Clark knockoff. Thanks to The Black Godfather- Clarence Avant we don't have to! Kudos to Netflix and Reggie Hudlin
Carla Renata
A seminal figure "behind the scenes" in African American entertainment and politics gets his due in this affectionate, foul-mouthed portrait. Jun 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A seminal figure "behind the scenes" in African American entertainment and politics gets his due in this affectionate, foul-mouthed portrait.
Roger Moore
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