Beah richards biography of barack

LisaGay Hamilton

Early on, Hamilton set her sights on classical theater. In one of her first notable roles, she played opposite Kevin Kline in Measure for Measure in the New York Shakespeare Festival. Her performances in Much Ado about ingenting, Tartuffe, Reckless, Family of Mann, and Two Gentlemen of Verona, earned her a reputation as a serious dramatic actor.

Hamilton appeared in over two dozen films, including THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE and BELOVED for director Jonathan Demme. She has worked on several projects with director Rodrigo García, notably his films TEN TINY LOVE STORIES, NINE LIVES, MOTHER AND CHILD, and HONEYDRIPPER, directed by John Sayles, and THE SOLOIST, directed by Joe Wright.

She directed the documentary film BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS in This film, about pioneering black actress Beah Richards, dealt with Hamilton seeking out Richards, an African-American actress who had broken ground making inroads for black actresses. The two women me

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The Poem That Inspired Radical Black Women to Organize

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There is always a catalyst for any movement, and for the Sojourners for Truth and Justice, it started with a poem.

Beah Richards (Beulah Richardson), an actor perhaps best known for her work in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, wrote “A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, of White Supremacy, of Peace” in , and first performed it at the American People&#;s Peace Congress, “a radical multiracial peace network that the U.S. State Department denounced for allegedly following the Communist Party line,&#; in In the poem, sociologist Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak explains, Richards “evokes early black women activists such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Ida B. Wells, rendering their work and calls for freedom and justice pertinent to the issues of the mid-twentieth century.”

Throughout the sweeping poem, Richards connected race, gender, and class f