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    Madam Spencer

    February 18, 2020

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    Interview by Lottie L. Joiner

    In 2012, Octavia Spencer won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing the maid, Minnie, in the movie The Help. Five years later, Spencer was nominated again for Best Supporting Actress fo...

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    Superwoman

    February 18, 2020

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    By Adrienne Samuels Gibbs

    Regina King has a knack for finding and telling stories that advance the national conversation on race. She is careful and humble in this interview, so she won’t tell you outright she does this. But i...

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    The Beauty in Blackness

    February 18, 2020

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    By Adrienne Samuels Gibbs

    Lena Waithe is well aware that some people are riled up about her portrayals of Black people in 2019’s groundbreaking film Queen & Slim. She also knows that the beauty in being Black stems from our mu...

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    She Ready

    February 18, 2020

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    By Wendy L. Wilson

    Da’Vine Joy Randolph is the square peg in a world of round holes. She doesn’t fit into anyone’s predictable mold. She likes it that way and, actually, so do we.

    As the breakout star from 2019’s biopic...

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    Justice Work

    February 18, 2020

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    By Louise Williams

    dream hampton has a short biography — if you ask her.

    “Filmmaker. Writer. And activist from Detroit,” she says, “and in that order.”

    Then, she pauses for a bit before continuing, perhaps thinking of the...

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    In Formation

    February 18, 2020

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    By Britt Julious

    Although Melina Matsoukas has gained critical acclaim for her first feature film, Queen & Slim, Matsoukas has been a music industry staple for more than 15 years. She’s directed videos for a number of...

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    Grace and Mercy

    February 18, 2020

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    By Cortney Wills

    In 2011, Chinonye Chukwu was saddened, frustrated and angered when Troy Davis was executed at a state prison in Georgia. Despite the thousands of people who protested the decision, the governor refuse...

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    Chasing Freedom

    February 18, 2020

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    By Cortney Wills

    Debra Martin Chase is one of the most influential women in television and film, and she has been quietly effecting change in the industry for decades.

    The 63-year-old from Great Lakes, Ill., has made H...

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    Diahann Carroll: Elegance Personified

    February 18, 2020

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    By Carla Renata

    Diahann Carroll was a class act.   
    Period.

    Carroll died of breast cancer on Oct. 4, 2019, at the age of 84. She was a barrier-breaker, pioneer and trailblazer.

    In 1962, she became the first Black...

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    Opportunity Knocks

    February 18, 2020

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    By Albert E. Fontenot

    Every decade, we all have the opportunity to shape the future of our communities with one simple task: completing the census. I have been at the Census Bureau for more than 10 years and I am now the s...

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