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‘How It Feels to Be Free’ Review: A Captivating Documentary Salute to Cicely Tyson, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, and Other Black Female Stars Who Blazed the Trail

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first African American woman to take home the Academy Award for best actress, after 30 seconds of convulsive tears she said, “This moment is so much bigger than me.

This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll…And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because this door tonight has been opened.” To have achieved something by standing on the shoulders of others is a profound feeling.

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