Rising Stars Ilfenesh Hadera And Antoinette Crowe-Legacy On The Lessons Our Society Can Take From The Motifs & Themes Of “Godfather Of Harlem”

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
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12 min readJan 18, 2023

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Photo Credit: Cara Howe/MGMPlus

… It’s as simple as making sure your neighbor is okay. If you make sure the person on your floor is doing well, fed, happy, and has someone checking on them, and every other person on your floor does that for someone else, then it’s this snowball effect, and everybody is taken care of. It is like, “do what you can for one, what you wish you could do for many” …

I had the distinct pleasure of talking to Ilfenesh Hadera and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy.

Ilfenesh Hadera just wrapped season three of MGM+’s critically acclaimed drama series GODFATHER OF HARLEM as ‘Mayme Johnson,’ wife of ‘Bumpy Johnson’ (Forest Whitaker). She will next be seen starring in Renny Harlin’s newest feature THE BRICKLAYER, opposite Aaron Eckhart and in the Steven C. Miller feature YEAR 2, opposite Frank Grillo and Katrina Law. She was previously seen in Spike Lee’s Netflix series SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT as ‘Opal Gilstrap,’ one of Nola Darling’s lovers. On the big screen, Ilfenesh

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator