Denzel Washington has been nominated for an Oscar an impressive eight times for acting roles, and another as a producer.
Encyclopaedia Africana R
February 24, 2021
RUBY DEE
Racism is a disease of democracy. Our country could be one of the greatest countries that god ever imagined, were it not for this thing of racism…This grand experiment that is America is tainted by racism and bigotry, and these kinds of hatreds…This ridiculous thing of racism.”
D Encyclopaedia Africana
February 20, 2021
DOROTHY DANDRIDGE
The actress famously turned down a role in The King and I, because she refused to play the role of a slave. The actress was very outspoken about her frustration with the lack of roles available to her in Hollywood, and her decision to refuse a starring role in a major picture emphasized that.
B Encyclopaedia Africana
September 2, 2020
BABATUNDE OLATUNJI
Baba sparked a deep sense of pride among African Americans by strongly promoting images of African culture, which in a subtle but significant way, helped set in motion the currents of the early civil rights movement,”
Encyclopaedia Africana L
August 30, 2020
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Early in her writing life, she was mentored by both W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes.
Encyclopaedia Africana M
August 2, 2020
March on Washington, 1963
He didn’t take a knee, he protested peacefully, but they killed him anyway.