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‘Going To Mars’ Narrator Taraji P. Henson On Meeting Doc’s Protagonist Nikki Giovanni: “I Was Nervous… (But), Phew, I Passed That Test”
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Taraji P. Henson is in contention for an Oscar nomination for her performance as Shug Avery in The Color Purple. But she’s also got a big stake in another Academy Award contender…
Henson serves as an executive producer of the HBO film directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, which made the Oscar doc shortlist announced on December 21. The documentary, which earned the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival last year, examines the emergence of Giovanni in the 1960s, her activism, incisive commentary on institutionalized racism, and the substance of her works of poetry including the 2010 volume Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea (We’re Going to Mars). In the title poem, she imagines a human mission to Mars and urges NASA to prepare by seeking guidance from Black Americans, whose ancestors endured the Middle Passage.
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