Her powerful performance as Billie Holiday is Hulu’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday has earned her a Golden Globe Award, an Oscar nomination and a host of well-deserved praise.
As she took to the stage to accept Ford’s Breakthrough Award, the actress and songstress reflected on what comes to mind when she hears “breakthrough.”“I love the term “breakthrough.
I love that term because I think “breakthrough” is the essence of who Black women are,” she said during the opening moments of her speech. “And I think breakthrough is the essence of who Billie Holiday was and the road that she paved for us to walk on.
Black women are constantly breaking through so many different barriers and so many different boxes that people try to put us.
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