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Alicia Keys to produce a PBS American Masters documentary on Black entertainers
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American Masters: How It Feels To Be Free will tell the story of six groundbreaking Black entertainers: Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier. The feature-length documentary will show how "they challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process," per Deadline. The documentary will be based on the book How It Feels To Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein.
TOPICS: Alicia Keys, PBS, American Masters, Abbey Lincoln, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, Pam Grier, Ruth Feldstein, Documentaries
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