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Currently Reading How It Feels to Be Free Review: A Captivating Documentary Salute to Cicely Tyson, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, and Other Black Female Stars Who Blazed the Trail
Yoruba Richen s sobering and enchanting film uncovers the radicalism of six timeless American entertainers.
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Director: Yoruba Richen
With: Halle Berry, Lena Waithe, Gail Lumet Buckley, Alicia Keys, Ruth Feldstein, Meagan Good, Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson.
In 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first African American to take home the Academy Award for best actress, after 30 seconds of convulsive tears she said, “This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll…And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because this door tonight has been opened.” To achieve something by standing