Gordon Parks, director of "Shaft," dies:

[Beware the Beast Man]

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NEW YORK - Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood’s first major black director with “The Learning Tree” and the hit “Shaft,” died Tuesday, his family said. He was 93.

Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died at his home in New York, according to a former wife, Genevieve Young, and nephew Charles Parks.





I remember he did a presentation at my school when I was in Jr. High. He was a real renaissance man.