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Comedy, Film, Television, and Theatre

Aldridge, Ira Frederick
Bailey, Pearl
Baker, Josephine
Battle, Kathleen
Beavers, Louise
Belafonte, Harry
Berry, Halle
Black Entertainment Television
black theatre
Brown, Ruth
Burnett, Charles
Carroll, Vinnette
Cosby, Bill
Dandridge, Dorothy
Davis, Ossie; and Dee, Ruby
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Dodson, Owen
Elder, Lonne, III
Fishburne, Laurence
Foxx, Redd
Freeman, Morgan
Fuller, Charles
Goldberg, Whoopi
Gossett, Lou, Jr.
Gregory, Dick
Hansberry, Lorraine
Horne, Lena
Jones, James Earl
Jones, Matilda Sissieretta
Kitt, Eartha
Laine, Cleo
Lee, Spike
LL Cool J
Mabley, Moms
McDaniel, Hattie
McRae, Carmen
Menken, Adah Isaacs
Micheaux, Oscar
Miller, May
minstrel show
Moss, Carlton
Murphy, Eddie
Norman, Jessye
Parks, Suzan-Lori
Poitier, Sidney
Price, Leontyne
Pryor, Richard
Robeson, Paul
Shange, Ntozake
Strode, Woody
theatre, African
Tyson, Cicely
Van Peebles, Melvin
Washington, Denzel
Waters, Ethel
Williams, Bert
Wilson, August
Wilson, Flip
Winfrey, Oprah