Alfre Woodard | Ace At AnyAge

The imitable incredible actor Alfre Woodard, producer, activist. She was in the lion King and 12 years a Slave, that says many things as she’s amazing. #aceAtAnyAge

In an interview in @guardian about the film clemency she shared “Woodard is a board member of the Democratic party and an organiser and advocate for several human rights charities. Her interest in politics stretches back to when she was a little girl in Tulsa, five years old, and her father insisted she watch the news every night.

What makes it feels different this time is that everybody’s kids are in the streets, all colours and ethnicities
“I was around for the anti-war movement in the 1960s and when they killed Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King. I saw that every time people stood for fundamental change they were killed,” she says. She retains hope that this wave of protest will produce lasting change. “During the 1960s, it was the youth mainly on the streets. What makes it feel different this time is that everybody’s kids are in the streets, all colours and ethnicities, but lots of their parents and grandparents who were protesting back then are still there too. The [George Floyd] video of callous disregard for human life, the eight minutes 46 seconds, that brought out the Sunday school teachers, the ladies who lunch, everybody got up and came out.”

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Image description: Woodard staring at camera her name above her lettered with quotes drawn down the side
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Photo Micheal Bunker from @deadline
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