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RoxFilm | Q&A - How It Feels To Be Free w/ Yoruba Richen and Suzanne Kay

Lisa Simmons, Festival Director, moderates a conversation with Director Yoruba Richen and Filmmaker Suzanne Kay - also daughter of Diahann Carroll who is featured in the film. How It Feels To Be Free: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast... Directed by Yoruba Richen (USA, 2020, 113 min.). Digital. How It Feels to Be Free takes an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics, and entertainment. Based on the book How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein, the films tells the story of how six trailblazing women—Lena Horne (the first Black woman signed to a major studio), Abbey Lincoln (the “Black Marilyn Monroe” turned protest singer and activist), Diahann Carroll (the first Black woman to both win a Tony Award and star in her own TV series in a role other than a maid), Nina Simone (the revolutionary musical prodigy), Cicely Tyson (the proud race woman who used her art as a form of protest), and Pam Grier (the first female action hero)—changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics. _________________ ROXFILMFEST.COM | #ROXFILM | @ROXFILM Instagram: www.instagram.com/roxfilm Facebook: www.facebook.com/roxburyfilm Twitter: www.instagram.com/roxfilm _________________