#African Actor

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🇧🇯#ArtIsAWeapon

**swoon** @djimon_hounsou #BeenFine, since I first saw him in @janetjackson 's "Love Will Never Do Without You" video until now! That face! These photos! Them fashions!!!

Images/caption reposted from @okayafrica

Benin-born, two-time Oscar-nominated actor #DjimonHounsou has spent three decades making a name for himself as a steadfast star. Though Hollywood hasn’t always rewarded him for his immense talent, he’s using his career’s currency for something far more meaningful than accolades and acclaim...

Rather than focusing on what Hollywood hasn’t provided him, Djimon Hounsou directs his energy towards what he can offer the world — through the Djimon Hounsou Foundation.

He established the organization to combat modern slavery and human trafficking, and to help Africans in the diaspora reconnect with their cultural, ancestral, and spiritual roots. “The aftermath of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a loss of knowledge,” he explains. “If you don’t know where you come from, you don’t know where you are.”

Read more in OkayAfrica’s digital cover story - out now.

Photographer: @marquisperkins

Writer: @nadianeo

Lighting tech: @jpierrebonnet

Stylist:@tiffanistyles for This Represents

Market editor: @coralreefin

Fashion team: Elizabeth Fonseca, Myles Colbert, Will Lewis

Groomer: @brittywhitfield

#BlackBeauty #AfricanMen #BlackFashion #AfricanActor

[sbrown82]

Eartha Kitt & Nat King Cole - “Careless Love” from St. Louis Blues (1958).

[yourdailyqueer]

Ncuti Gatwa

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay / Queer

DOB: 15 October 1992

Ethnicity: Rwandan

Nationality: British / Scottish

Occupation: Actor

Note: First black actor to lead Doctor Who as "The Doctor"

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Vincent Price - Champagne For Caesar (1951)

[dolorygloria]

Josephine Baker, "The Black Venus" (1906-1975)

[saydesole]

William Marshall A.K.A Blacula 1924-2003

Our first black Vampire to be seen on every tv screen

Marshall was also a talented opera singer and a man of many skills. His contributions have allowed us (African Americans) to see ourselves represented as vampires, werewolves, and mermaids in numerous television shows and movies.

Both movies can be seen on Tubi

[afrotumble]

John Amos Dies at 84 Leaving a Legacy of Strength and Authentic Black Representation - The Michigan Chronicle

Amos was born on December 27, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey, to a father who worked as an auto mechanic. He graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in sociology and pursued a brief career in professional football before finding his calling in acting. Even before his television fame, Amos was no stranger to hard work. He was a social worker at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, working with defendants at the Brooklyn House of Detention. His journey into acting began after a coach encouraged him to pursue his interest in writing, leading to a successful career in front of the camera.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I tried to watch season 2 of the bear, and flamed out tragically when I saw all the famous people in episode 6. I'm sorry, those are Faces, I know who they are and therefore the illusion is broken entirely and completely.

[sbrown82]

Nina and Darius back together again! 🙌🏿 🖤

[yourdailyqueer]

Amber Ruffin

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 9 January 1979

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Comedian, screenwriter, writer, playwright, presenter, actress, producer

Note: First Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.

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[twixnmix]

Earle Hyman photographed by Carl Van Vechten on February 21, 1947.

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jordan.