How It Feels To Be Free, a documentary spotlighting the lives and careers of six groundbreaking Black women entertainers will air on PBS tonight.
Alicia Keys served as executive producer of the project which was directed by the award-winning filmmaker behind The Killing of Breonna Taylor, Yoruba Richen.
The documentary is based on the book How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein.
Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson, and Pam Grier are the women whose lives are explored not only from the perspective of performers but as activists whose choices to support controversial causes paved the way for today’s celebrities to openly support the Black Lives Matter.
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