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Coretta: Pensitivity by Ekua Holmes

Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968. As an advocate for African-American equality, she was a leader for the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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Growing up in the business, Naya was part of the golden era of Black sitcoms and because of her skin color and curly hair, it was natural for her to get roles as a Black girl…

The Royal Family (1991-1992)

Family Matters (1992-1993)

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993)

Smart Guy (1997-1999)

The Bernie Mac Show (2002-2006)

“At auditions my mom would fill out the forms with all my information, and when it came to the question about race, she’d always check the ‘other’ box, then write exactly what I was: one-quarter African American one-quarter German and one-half Puerto Rican.”

“I soon started realizing that I was too white for the Black kids, too black for the Latinos and just generally too all-around ‘other’ for the white kids.”

“Now it seems like there’s a lot less leeway in the roles that are written for nonwhite characters, in that race will inevitably play a big part in how they act and what they say. The sad truth is that a lot of roles that are available for Black or Latino actors are stereotypes.”

“I’ll never be able to articulate the importance of seeing Naya, a Black Puerto Rican, portraying a queer Afro-Latina on primetime TV. #RIPNayaRivera” - Steven Canals

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Afro-Puerto Rican jazz singer, cabaret performer, and Queen of Filin Lucy Fabery, b. 1931. Although called “La Muñeca de Chocolate” (“The Chocolate Doll”) for her dark-skinned beauty, this label ”is actually the antithesis of Lucy; a doll is something static and inert, and she vibrates even when sitting still.” Luis Rafael Sánchez writes,

The memory of anyone who ever heard Lucy Fabery automatically records the magnetic strangeness of her voice. And then the diffuse spasms of her body; spasms that strip spectators of their serene detachment. Listening to the wonderful sound of Lucy Fabery, seeing the singer Lucy Fabery elevate physical movement to the level of a concert by a full orchestra, we see the truth expressed by [Alejo] Carpentier when he writes, “The Caribbean sounds, resounds.”