our participation of actors. starting off as guest stars, then we became supporting actors. who the hell are you any way? who am i? you will find out very soon. very soon. then we became lead actors we don t run, we stick together and we fight. get out of my house. drama is where all of the conflict happens. scandal is my favorite drama. how many times have i told you what you have to be. everything about it, the twist, the terms, the acting. twice as good. twice as good as them to get half of what they have. i love queen sugar. david makes man. i like the intimacy of that world that is being depicted. definitely new york undercover. you stupid, turn around. a positive role, a great thing to see someone who looks like you, a pivotal moment to figure out who i was. america drama almost doesn t, it doesn t exist without black people now. - that s right, hank plummer. you know, i can find him? - yeah, he s right here. it s me. - you know, for a
it was very powerful. cicely tyson had jane pitman, she was in roots she was sort of the first black dramatic actress to be in hollywood and in the eyes of the white community and the black community. so, jane pitman was a big deal when it came out. part of me want today to go to his grave. the tv landscape changed when the miniseries first appeared t. comes on in the 70s. it is a fuller expression than you can get in a one or two hour tv movie rich man, poor man might have bye-bye the first but when they think about it in the 70s they think of roots. it was the first of what we call appointment tv. it is hard for people today to understand how important roots was because it was the first time that you followed
Allow flood in the 1960s america was changing, in the civil rights era. black people are demanding things. they are demanding not only civil rights but fair representation. and things were starting to change. they were starting to listen. 1963 for example, the great sissy tyson starred in east side west side was the first exam ample of a black woman in a show. when i was very young, still in baton rouge i saw tyson east side west side a show that took place in new york with her little afro and, you know, just like where did this woman hail from? this is early. it was a time before the afro had widespread acceptance. she is not playing a maid, she