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Barbara O. Jones Dies: Actress In The Independent Black Cinema Was 82
A prominent actress in the independent Black cinema of the 1970s is dead at 82.
Barbara O. Jones, an actress in the independent Black cinema of 1970s Los Angeles in films like Bush Mama and Daughters of the Dust, died on April 8 at her home in Dayton, Ohio. Her resume included Black Chariot(1971) and the 1977 science fiction horror movie Demon Seed, starring Julie Christie. ones’s last major credit was Daughters of the Dust(1991), in which she played Yellow Mary, a former prostitute who grew up among the Gullah people of the Southeast coast.
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