Howard alums, working women, mothers and grandmothers, have defied age and, most importantly, embody and define “Black Excellence.”And this year they’ve been as busy as ever.
Rashad, most beloved as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, changed it up a bit by playing villains in two films—Tyler Perry’s first Netflix film, A Fall From Grace, in January and the Blumhouse horror thriller Black Box in October—before settling into more familiar terrain with the HBO production of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, Between the World and Me, the new Christmas classic, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey and Pixar’s jazz-themed animated film Soul.In addition to running the Debbie Allen Dance Academy (DADA), work that fuels the Shonda Rhimes-produced Netflix.
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