It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching some type of genre movie and a black character is introduced. Suddenly, we... More > get a sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, because we know this character is going to die.
For anyone who has ever watched a horror film, or science fiction movie, or action flick, and wondered why the black characters always seem to get killed, David Walker, award-winning journalist, filmmaker and creator of BadAzz MoFo, answers the question, “Why’s the Brotha Gotta Die?!?”
In this collection of irreverent and informative essays and profiles, Walker examines the cinematic phenomenon of the Disposable Brotha—the black characters that get bumped off in genre movies. Along the way he profiles some of the greatest Disposable Brothas and Sistas of all time, the films in which they die, and even those lucky few who escape with their lives. < Less

It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching some type of genre movie and a black character is introduced. Suddenly, we... More > get a sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, because we know this character is going to die.
For anyone who has ever watched a horror film, or science fiction movie, or action flick, and wondered why the black characters always seem to get killed, David Walker, award-winning journalist, filmmaker and creator of BadAzz MoFo, answers the question, “Why’s the Brotha Gotta Die?!?”
In this collection of irreverent and informative essays and profiles, Walker examines the cinematic phenomenon of the Disposable Brotha—the black characters that get bumped off in genre movies. Along the way he profiles some of the greatest Disposable Brothas and Sistas of all time, the films in which they die, and even those lucky few who escape with their lives. < Less

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker David Walker’s critically acclaimed reviews of blaxploitation films have garnered... More > worldwide praise. But his earliest blaxploitation reviews, from the pages of his ‘zine BadAzz MoFo, have long been out of circulation. Now, after more than a decade, the insightful and insane observations of David Walker are back in print. Updated and expanded into this collection of more than 80 reviews of cult favorites, lost classics and unwatchable trash, the best and worst black action films of the 1970s can be found in
BadAzz MoFo's Book of BLAXPLOITATION, Volume One. < Less

It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching some type of genre movie and a black character is introduced. Suddenly, we... More > get a sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, because we know this character is going to die.
For anyone who has ever watched a horror film, or science fiction movie, or action flick, and wondered why the black characters always seem to get killed, David Walker, award-winning journalist, filmmaker and creator of BadAzz MoFo, answers the question, “Why’s the Brotha Gotta Die?!?”
In this collection of irreverent and informative essays and profiles, Walker examines the cinematic phenomenon of the Disposable Brotha—the black characters that get bumped off in genre movies. Along the way he profiles some of the greatest Disposable Brothas and Sistas of all time, the films in which they die, and even those lucky few who escape with their lives. < Less

An eclectic, irreverent mix of the absurd, disturbing and hilarious, Raging Gimps offers thirty tales of the disabled and... More > the disenfranchised. Told from a variety of points of view, these stories give voice to those often without a voice, the fringe dwellers and the societal rejects. A colorful cast of characters move through a twisted world where bizarre turns of fate and man’s inhumanity to man result in comedy and tragedy, redemption and damnation. Written by Bonnie F. Walker, Raging Gimps draws inspiration from her career as a professional nurse and healthcare provider, and a lifetime of advocacy for human rights. < Less

It's happened to all of us. We're watching some type of genre movie and a black character is introduced. Suddenly, we get a... More > sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, because we know this character is going to die. For anyone who has ever watched a horror film, or science fiction movie, or action flick, and wondered why the black characters always seem to get killed, David Walker, award-winning journalist, filmmaker and creator of BadAzz MoFo, answers the question, "Why's the Brotha Gotta Die!" In this collection of irreverent and informative essays and profiles, Walker examines the cinematic phenomenon of the Disposable Brotha-the black characters that get bumped off in genre movies. Along the way he profiles some of the greatest Disposable Brothas and Sistas of all time, the films in which they die, and even those lucky few who escape with their lives. < Less

It’s happened to all of us. We’re watching some type of genre movie and a black character is introduced. Suddenly, we... More > get a sinking feeling in the pit of our stomach, because we know this character is going to die.
For anyone who has ever watched a horror film, or science fiction movie, or action flick, and wondered why the black characters always seem to get killed, David Walker, award-winning journalist, filmmaker and creator of BadAzz MoFo, answers the question, “Why’s the Brotha Gotta Die?!?”
In this collection of irreverent and informative essays and profiles, Walker examines the cinematic phenomenon of the Disposable Brotha—the black characters that get bumped off in genre movies. Along the way he profiles some of the greatest Disposable Brothas and Sistas of all time, the films in which they die, and even those lucky few who escape with their lives. < Less

An eclectic, irreverent mix of the absurd, disturbing and hilarious, Raging Gimps offers thirty tales of the disabled and... More > the disenfranchised. Told from a variety of points of view, these stories give voice to those often without a voice, the fringe dwellers and the societal rejects. A colorful cast of characters move through a twisted world where bizarre turns of fate and man’s inhumanity to man result in comedy and tragedy, redemption and damnation. Written by Bonnie F. Walker, Raging Gimps draws inspiration from her career as a professional nurse and healthcare provider, and a lifetime of advocacy for human rights. < Less

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker David Walker’s critically acclaimed reviews of blaxploitation films have garnered... More > worldwide praise. But his earliest blaxploitation reviews, from the pages of his ‘zine BadAzz MoFo, have long been out of circulation. Now, after more than a decade, the insightful and insane observations of David Walker are back in print. Updated and expanded into this collection of more than 80 reviews of cult favorites, lost classics and unwatchable trash, the best and worst black action films of the 1970s can be found in
BadAzz MoFo's Book of BLAXPLOITATION, Volume One. < Less