Best Movies

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

Betty and Coretta

Narrator

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

A Thousand Words

Annie McCall

Video Girl

Valerie

Politics of Love

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Miss Candy

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Narrator (voice)

America

Mrs. Harper

Steam

Doris

American Gangster

Mama Lucas

All About Us

Ms. Ella

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

Herself

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Discovering William Greaves

Self

The Way Back Home

Maude

No. 2

Nanna Maria

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Nanny

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

(archive footage)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Taking Back Our Town

Emelda West

Feast of All Saints

Elsie Claviere

Finding Buck McHenry

Mrs. Henry

A Storm in Summer

Grandmother

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Baby Geniuses

Margo

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

Passing Glory

Mommit Porter

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

Narrator

The Wall

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

A Simple Wish

Hortence

Sports on the Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Indigo

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Sophia

Just Cause

Evangeline Ferguson

Tuesday Morning Ride

Jennie

Whitewash

Grandmother (voice)

After Goodbye

Narrator

Cop & ½

Rachel

The Ernest Green Story

Lydia Wilson

Color Adjustment

Narrator

Jazztime Tale

Narrator (voice)

Jungle Fever

Lucinda Purify

Decoration Day

Rowena

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Jackie's Mother

Love at Large

Corrine Dart

Zora is My Name!

Zora Neale Hurston

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

Do the Right Thing

Mother Sister

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mrs. Grimes

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

Cat People

Female

All God's Children

Irene Whitfield

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grandmother Baxter

Countdown at Kusini

Leah Matanzima

Wedding Band

Julia Augustine

It's Good to Be Alive

Ruth Campanella

Black Girl

Netta's mother

Buck and the Preacher

Ruth

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

The Sheriff

Sue Ann Lucas

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage)

Deadlock

Lucinda

Uptight

Laurie

The Incident

Joan Robinson

Neighbours

Vicky Kingsbury

Gone Are the Days!

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

The Balcony

Thief

A Raisin in the Sun

Ruth Younger

Take a Giant Step

Christine

Virgin Island

Ruth

St. Louis Blues

Elizabeth

Edge of the City

Lucy Tyler

Go Man Go

Irma Jackson

The Tall Target

Rachel

No Way Out

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

The Jackie Robinson Story

Rae Robinson

The Fight Never Ends

What a Guy

Easy to Get

Drugstore Girl

Love in Syncopation

That Man of Mine

Joan