Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Minimal diversity images, which include the era of U.S. racial segregation between Blacks and Whites, jazz bands had mostly male musicians, and women often held roles as wives and homemakers.

References and images include a dead body in a casket, gangsters, guns, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, race riots, slavery, and prostitution.

The four marriages of Louis Armstrong, male nudity from the waist up, a man seated on a toilet, and scantily-clad women.

Includes "ass," "bitch," "bulls--t," "c--ksucker," "damn," "f--k," "f--king," "goddamn it," "hell," "motherf--ker," and "s--t." Slur words include the "N" word, "ofay," "Uncle Tom," and "whores."

Alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, laxatives, and marijuana.

Parents need to know that Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues is a documentary about the Grammy Award-winning African American jazz trumpeter. References and images include alcoholic drinks, cigarettes, laxatives, marijuana, a dead body in a casket, gangsters, guns, lynchings, male nudity from the waist up, race riots, scantily-clad women, and prostitution. Slur phrases include the "N" word, "ofay," "Uncle Tom," and "whores." Language includes "bitch," "bulls--t," "c--ksucker," "f--king," "goddamn it," "hell," "motherf--ker," and "s--t." Positive messages include breaking barriers and sharing stories and wisdom from one's life to possibly help others.

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