Casts
Do the Right Thing
Mother Sister
Jungle Fever
Lucinda Purify
American Gangster
Mama Lucas
America
Mrs. Harper
Cat People
Female
Love at Large
Corrine Dart
Jazztime Tale
Narrator (voice)
Just Cause
Evangeline Ferguson
Cop & ½
Rachel
Buck and the Preacher
Ruth
No. 2
Nanna Maria
The Tall Target
Rachel
Edge of the City
Lucy Tyler
A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth Younger
The Jackie Robinson Story
Rae Robinson
The Incident
Joan Robinson
A Simple Wish
Hortence
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Nanny
Politics of Love
Feast of All Saints
Elsie Claviere
Black Girl
Netta's mother
Video Girl
Valerie
Decoration Day
Rowena
Uptight
Laurie
Finding Buck McHenry
Mrs. Henry
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Sophia
It's Good to Be Alive
Ruth Campanella
A Storm in Summer
Grandmother
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Betty and Coretta
Narrator
Steam
Doris
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Grandmother Baxter
Virgin Island
Ruth
Take a Giant Step
Christine
Tuesday Morning Ride
Jennie
Gone Are the Days!
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
After Goodbye
Narrator
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
That Man of Mine
Joan
Deadlock
Lucinda
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Mary Tyrone
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
Narrator (voice)
Passing Glory
Mommit Porter
The Wall
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
Countdown at Kusini
Leah Matanzima
Whitewash
Grandmother (voice)
Taking Back Our Town
Emelda West
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Jackie's Mother
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
Narrator
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
Neighbours
Vicky Kingsbury
No Way Out
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Indigo
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Love in Syncopation
The Fight Never Ends
What a Guy
Wedding Band
Julia Augustine
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Miss Candy
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
Herself
All God's Children
Irene Whitfield
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Mrs. Grimes
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Self
The Ernest Green Story
Lydia Wilson
A Thousand Words
Annie McCall
Zora is My Name!
Zora Neale Hurston
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
(archive footage)
St. Louis Blues
Elizabeth
The Balcony
Thief
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Self
Color Adjustment
Narrator
Go Man Go
Irma Jackson
Discovering William Greaves
Self
Baby Geniuses
Margo
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
The Sheriff
Sue Ann Lucas
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
On Merit
Narrator (voice)
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
All About Us
Ms. Ella
Easy to Get
Drugstore Girl
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Self
The Stand
Mother Abagail Freemantle
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Mary Wilson
Spenser: For Hire
The Great Adventure
Harriet Tubman
The Golden Girls
Mammy Watkins
China Beach
Little Bill
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Rowena Finch
The Stand
Mother Abagail Freemantle
Police Woman
The Fugitive
Laura Smith
Roots: The Next Generations
Queen Victoria Haley
Iconoclasts
Self
Middle Ages
Estelle Williams
The Defenders
Catherine Collins
The Kennedy Center Honors
Self
Lincoln
Elizabeth Keckley
Reading Rainbow
Herself - Narrator (voice)
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Christianity: The First 1000 Years
Herself - Narrator
The Atlanta Child Murders
Faye Williams
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Grandma (voice)
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
Narrator
Touched by an Angel
LaBelle Springbelt
Great Performances
Self