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This Week is about movies. We will take a quick glance at what some amazing African American actors have done. Today meet Dorothy Dandridge.
Dorothy Dandridge was an entertainer and actress that starred on stage and screen in the late 1940s and 1950s. She performed at the Cotton Club at the age of 16 with her sisters as a trio. She starred in a series of low budget films in the early 1940s like Drums in the Congo and The Hit Parade of 1943.
Carmen Jones, a film based off the opera Carmen, made her a star and earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. It was the first time an African American had been nominated for a leading actor role. She was also one of the first actresses to play roles where there were interracial relationships.
She struggled for good acting parts, even going to Europe in hopes of landing better roles. She did not find much.
Her last important movie was Porgy and Bess (1959) with Sidney Poitier, Pearl Bailey and Sammy Davis, Jr. By this time, Dandridge had perfected the role of playing the bad black woman who refused to go right.
In 1965, Dandridge died of an overdose of anti depression pills.
This information is from Donald Bogle’s Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks.
Here is the start of the Affirmation Series. Own this shirt so that you can remind yourself that you are enough. You only have to be what God has made you, no more, no less. Say it to yourself. I am enough.
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This month we will examine character and what makes us successful in life. Proverbs 16:32 says a person who controls their temper is better than one who starts battles. Think about the energy you save in not having to fight that fight. This week look for your patience.
Do you see an overgrown mess or creation breaking through? Some see beauty while others see a mess. It is all about perspective.
Sir Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian American citizen, actor and director. He is the first person of color to win an Academy Award in the Best Actor category. Which is your favorite Sidney Poitier film?
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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