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Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick

Making by WBEZ Chicago

Apr 22, 202500:40:03Society & Culture

From Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on The Guiding Light to the first Black super-couple, Jesse and Angie on All My Children, Black soap actors have been on the canvas. According to an executive at CBS, Black women overindex a...

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Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick is an episode from Making by WBEZ Chicago. From Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee on The Guiding Light to the first Black super-couple, Jesse and Angie on All My Children, Black soap actors have been on th...

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Published Apr 22, 2025, 00:40:03 long, audio available.

Black actors don’t want to be your sidekick

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