dorothy dandridge

attends the 2016 Library Lions Gala at New York Public Library - Stephen A Schwartzman Building on November 7, 2016 in New York City.

This Day in Black History: March 1, 1927

Harry Belafonte is born.
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Halle Berry (Photo by Ke.Mazur/WireImage)

This Day in Black History: Jan. 23, 2000

Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for best actress.
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This Day in Black History: March 29, 1918

Actress and singer Pearl Bailey was born.
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Nina Joins the Block - The Internet tried it but it could not stop the Nina Simone biopic from seeing the light of day. After stills of Zoe Saldaña arrived, depicting the famed singer in what many called blackface, the Internet lost its collective mind.To add insult to injury, the star of the movie herself went out publicly to talk, not so glowingly, about the film's lack of focus.Here we are, almost three years later, and the movie Nina will be out for the world to see on April 22, but how will it stack up against all these other music biopics? Time will tell. – Jon Reyes & Michael Harris (Photo: Ealing Studios Entertainment, Ealing Studios, Londinium Films)

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See Angela Davis and Diahann Carroll like never before.
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Dorothy Dandridge in The King and I - The songbird was pursued for the role of Tuptim in this 1956 classic, but turned it down on the advice of Otto Preminger, her director from Carmen Jones, who dissuaded her from accepting a supporting role. Her biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, also suggests she passed because the character was a slave.(Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

This Day in Black History: Nov. 9, 1922

African-American entertainer Dorothy Dandridge was born.
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Dorothy Dandridge in The King and I - The songbird was pursued for the role of Tuptim in this 1956 classic, but turned it down on the advice of Otto Preminger, her director from Carmen Jones, who dissuaded her from accepting a supporting role. Her biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, also suggests she passed because the character was a slave.(Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

This Day in Black History: Sept. 8, 1965

Trailblazing actress and singer Dorothy Dandridge died.
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Halle Berry

This Day in Black History: March 24, 2002

Halle Berry won the Oscar for Best Actress.
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Black Remakes of White Films

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