As the writer, director and star of “Outlaw Johnny Black,” Michael Jai White revives the Hollywood Western of the 1970s Blaxploitation era. As a cowboy who pretends to be a preacher in order ...

In that sense, it’s similar to Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 antiracist Western ... Instead, “Blazing Saddles” presents everyday good White townspeople, as racist — and as irredeemable ...

Blazing Saddles starts out like many a Western before it: Big Sky country, a wide open prairie in the 1870s being tamed by a railroad. The foreman is white, his workers mostly African American ...