Marlon Riggs (3 February 1957 - 5 April 1994), an African-American poet, educator, filmmaker, and an outspoken gay rights activist. Riggs was inducted into the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Hall of Fame in 2006. He produced many documentaries for public television, some of which were considered controversial by media watchdog groups, who protested the fact that Riggs' films were produced with money from the National Endowment for the Arts. Wikipedia
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From 1987 until shortly before his death in 1994, Marlon Riggs was Professor of Documentary Film-making in the Graduate School of Journalism. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, Riggs earned his M.A. degree in journalism from Berkeley in 19 sunsite.berkeley.edu/gaybears/riggs/
MARLON T. RIGGS was a producer, director, and writer, who graduated with honors from Harvard in 1978, and received the MA from UC Berkeley, where he later taught Documentary Film in the Graduate School of Journalism. His films include Tongues Untied , th www.colorado.edu/journals/standards/V5N1/marlonintro.html
The late Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs established a reputation for his insightful and controversial films that confront racism and homophobia. Riggs's first major work, Ethnic Notions (1987) received a National Emmy Award. Riggs www.itvs.org/external/BIBA/bios.html