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48 credits
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart(2017)
Self
Film
And When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead(2015)
Self
Film
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee(2014)
Self
FilmAmerican Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs(2013)
Self
Film1982(2013)
Rose Brown
Film
Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary(2012)
Self
Film
Video Girl(2011)
Valerie
Film
Politics of Love(2011)
Actor
Film
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School(2009)
Narrator
Film
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement(2009)
Self
Film
Steam(2007)
Doris
Film
All About Us(2007)
Ms. Ella
Film
Naming Number Two(2006)
Nanna Maria
FilmLockdown, USA(2006)
Narrator
Film
The Way Back Home(2006)
Maude
Film
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks(2003)
Self
Film
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives(2003)
Reader
Film
Baby Geniuses(1999)
Margo
FilmA Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner(1998)
Narrator
Film
A Simple Wish(1997)
Hortense
Film
Just Cause(1995)
Evangeline
FilmThe African Burial Ground: An American Discovery(1994)
Self - Narrator
Film
Cop & ½(1993)
Rachel
Film
Color Adjustment(1992)
Narrator
Film
Jungle Fever(1991)
Lucinda Purify
Film
Love at Large(1990)
Corrine Dart
Film
Do the Right Thing(1989)
Mother Sister
Film
Cat People(1982)
Female
Film
The Torture of Mothers(1980)
Actor
Film
Cool Red(1976)
Leah Matanzima
Film
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