Africans Americans In HOLLYWOOD

Before Denzel Washington and Halle Berry starred a civil rights leader, a federal agent, a boxer, or a famous singer, there were struggles for Blacks to obtain more diverse roles in Hollywood movies back in times like 1940's. Their roles were all the same; they either played a butler, maid or a secretary. Now, as some things have changed in our society, you still find African Americans, more so African American females, portraying stereotypical roles in the mainstream today of either the ghetto black mother, the "hoochie", a black female with a bad attitude who despises the African American male. There are still borders that has to be crossed but you have to also pay homage to the woman like Ruby Dee, Angela Bassett, Sanaa Lathan, Taraji P. Henson, and Kerry Washington, and more.

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