He is a proud South African police sergeant, the second generation in the job, and he wants his son to follow him onto the force. In classes for new cadets, he tells them they ll be called pig, and then he explains that the word s initials stand for Pride, Integrity, and Guts and Glory. He is good at his job and believes in it. And he is black.
His name is Micah Mangena, and Danny Glover plays him in Bopha! as a man who sums up much of the anguish of modern South Africa. As his story opens, in 1980, he works in a drowsy rural area where relationships between whites and blacks, and police and civilians, seem fairly good - at least from the official point of view. Mangena has a good working relationship with his white captain, who is not a bad man, and he is proud to provide a good standard of living for his wife (Alfre Woodard) and their only son (Maynard Eziashi).
She did the heavy lifting, Denzel has said, crediting Pauletta with making their marriage work.
Not that Mrs Washington sacrificed her own career entirely, appearing in movies including the Oscar-nominated Philadelphia and Spike Lee s 2017 TV series She s Gotta Have It.
Denzel, 66, was more or less unknown as an actor when they married in 1983, and he very nearly didn t become an actor at all.
The son of a Pentecostal minister and a beauty parlour owner who divorced when he was 14, Denzel was sent by his mother to a private school in upstate New York - something he later said changed his life.
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Herman Wallace: Friend, artist and member of the Angola 3
December 16, 2020
Interview by Willow Katz
Willow Katz: Sharon Willis, you corresponded for 26 years with Herman Wallace of the Angola 3. Who are the Angola 3?
Sharon Willis: The Angola 3 are three Black men: Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert Hillary King. In 1972, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox were accused of killing a young prison guard in Louisiana State Prison in Angola, Louisiana. They were put in solitary confinement. Later, Robert Hillary King was brought to Angola and also put in solitary. They were all charged and convicted of the murder, becoming known as the Angola 3.