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Colleagues in the house judiciary who voted out the crown act, which is giving voice to so many of us african-american women and other women who have been discriminated against, our daughters who have had difficulty having their natural hair, having their beautiful hair be as it is. i've had locs, braids, cornrows, you maim it, i've been there. >> afros. >> what? i had the angela davis afro. but i'm grateful we're recognizing there is discrimination that's being done even against our young daughters in school and that we are standing up again it. so thank you so much to all of them who voted t...

Start to wonder if you can really achieve things until melvin van peebles on the screen. we didn't have facial hair back then, bra. that's something you had afros and bell bottoms and you get pam greer and all those other flicks that came later, he was suddenly showing it's fun to be us and that psychological change is atomic to people under represented. kids like me who grew up watching my dad's movies, watching the movies gordon parks and ozzie davis decided we want to do that, too. spike lee, singleton, kids like some of the sisters coming out now. i got melvin's grandson now here who is ge...

Film making? >> first of all, i grew up on that film. it meant i was, you know, learning about editing. we were learning about acting. you grow up in the melvin van peebles by any means necessary film making family, you learn it all. that's actually good because dad said, i don't play ball well. i'm going to try to teach you how to own the team. when he did sweet back and i was there as a kid, i saw hollywood look at this and say, this is a movie about a black sex worker who becomes a revolutionary, who gets a consciousness. they didn't want that, but they wanted that revolutionary money. so t...

Us as a community, but it was too late. we were now seen on screen in afros and bellbottoms. when we say black lives matter, it doesn't mean no lives matter, but not even thinking god looks like you, we were starting to see ourselves win on screen. that was an immense thing for folks of color. 20 years later i did "new jack city" and after that i got a little juice in hollywood, you know, you never take it too seriously. after that i wanted to do a western examand i got to direct dad in a hollywood poposse. traditionally black people didn't do so well. a good indian was a dead indian, but in m...