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Abdias Nascimento
Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activis…
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Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
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2024
Othelo The Great
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Negro em Mim
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2020
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2017
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
Movie Himself
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2008
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
Movie Self
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2004
CINEMA NOIR
Movie
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1989
Ôrí
Movie Self
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1988
Abolition
Movie Himself
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1983
Fala Mangueira!
Movie Self
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1982
Tribunal Bertha Lutz
Movie
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1962
Five Times Favela
Movie (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
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1959
O Homem do Sputnik
Movie Chico
