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“There Is Something In My Spirit That Feels Like He Was Ready.” Viola Davis Reflects On Working With Chadwick Boseman

During a recent interview, Viola Davis reflects on her time working with the late Chadwick Boseman for his last film "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."

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The fourth of seven children in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, August Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel, April 27, 1945 to an African American mother and a German immigrant father. By the time he was five, his parents divorced. His mother remarried in the late 1950s and the family moved to the

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Claudette Colvin

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