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COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press 5 mins ago The sculpture of Viola Liuzzo in Detroit park that bears her name is shown on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate the white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with […]
Black Wall Street Survivor Viola Ford Fletcher Tribute: NYC … Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Source link
NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tonight, the heart of New York City will resonate with a poignant tribute as its iconic buildings don a solemn hue in honor of the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This visual gesture carries a profound significance, paying homage to […]
NEW YORK — Being a centenarian hasn’t slowed down Viola Ford Fletcher’s pursuit of justice. In the last couple of years, Fletcher has traveled internationally, testified before Congress and supported a lawsuit for reparations — all part of a campaign for accountability over the massacre that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s original “Black Wall Street” in 1921, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Being a centenarian hasn’t slowed down Viola Ford Fletcher’s pursuit of justice. In the last couple of years, Fletcher has traveled internationally, testified before Congress and supported a lawsuit for reparations — all part of a campaign for accountability over the massacre that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma . . .
Viola Vess Black, formerly of Charleroi, passed from this earth on Saturday, February 18, 2023, and went to claim her rightful place in heaven. Viola was born on June 6, 1934, on a farm in rural Virginia near Clifton Forge, the youngest child of the late Chester and Katie Peters Vess. While working in a […]
TORONTO (AP) — When Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie warrior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make “The Woman King,” but of a lifelong battle. “It was sort […]
Viola Davis on the Long Journey of ‘The Woman King’: ‘To Finally Get It Made…Was Close to a TheWrap Source link
Viola Davis has more than paid her dues to become an award-winning actress who is widely respected for portraying characters that feel both real and familiar on both the big and small screens. However, cultivating a career of Oscar, Emmy, and Tony nominations has not been easy. Not even for Davis, who studied at the […]
Viola Davis has taken on the greatest work of her career in the film “The Woman King.” The film is based on the real-life Dahomey Tribe (also recognized as Agoji and Dahomey Amazons) of West Africa. During the 19th century, the all-woman militia was heralded for defending the Kingdom of Dahomey. The film, directed by […]