{"id":39512,"date":"2016-11-17T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T23:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39512"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:45:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:45:15","slug":"blaxploitation-brown-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/17\/blaxploitation-brown-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaxploitation Streaming Service Brown Sugar Launches Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can you dig this?<\/p>\n

Bounce TV has launched Brown Sugar, a streaming service that will deliver a library of blaxploitation films to its users. Initially the service will be available to iOS and Android devices, though other platforms will gain access in the coming months. Potential subscribers will get a free month to try to service before a monthly fee of $3.99 kicks in.<\/p>\n

Brown Sugar has picked two blaxploitation icons to be its “ambassadors” – Pam Grier, who starred in such classics of the genre like Coffy<\/strong> and Sheba Baby<\/strong>, and Fred “The Hammer” Williamson who starred in Black Caesar<\/strong> and Three The Hard Way<\/strong>. In a press release Grier states –<\/p>\n

Brown Sugar is just like Netflix, only blacker. These movies are entertaining and fun, but they were also empowering to the black community as they depicted African Americans as strong leading characters and heroes for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brown Sugar will be curating their films into several categories such as –<\/p>\n