He left behind an acclaimed bounty of music, but one of his best works is his sole soundtrack, to the 1974 Blaxploitation hit (and one of Quentin Tarantino’s all-time faves) Coffy. Like ...

"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn't support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." ...