Black Entertainment : ‘Harriet’ Is the Powerful Rebuke of White Supremacy America Needs Right Now

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Kasi Lemmons on black representation in Hollywood and the 'shocking' story of a studio exec who wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman

"It's hard to believe, right? And quite shocking on one level," says Lemmons, who is also a film professor at New York University. "But on another level, we see that all the time, and we've seen it pretty recently, in some ways that have been pretty tone deaf."


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Kevin Polowy
Senior Correspondent, Yahoo Entertainment
Yahoo Movies
 

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