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Private eye John Shaft was a new kind of figure in film: unapologetically Black with swagger. He clapped back at white cops, he busted mobsters, and helped create the entire genre of Blaxploitation.

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Actor Richard Roundtree, star of 'Shaft,' dies at 81

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