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How It Feels to Be Free
Yoruba Richen

How It Feels to Be Free

  • Documentary

How Six African-American Female Performers Challenged the Entertainment Industry

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RELEASE

2021-01-18

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LENGTH

120 min

Description

Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.