Ruby Dee

Mother Sister

Do the Right Thing

Lucinda Purify

Jungle Fever

Mama Lucas

American Gangster

Mrs. Harper

America

Female

Cat People

Corrine Dart

Love at Large

Narrator (voice)

Jazztime Tale

Evangeline Ferguson

Just Cause

Rachel

Cop & ½

Ruth

Buck and the Preacher

Nanna Maria

No. 2

Rachel

The Tall Target

Lucy Tyler

Edge of the City

Ruth Younger

A Raisin in the Sun

Rae Robinson

The Jackie Robinson Story

Joan Robinson

The Incident

Hortence

A Simple Wish

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Nanny

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Politics of Love

Elsie Claviere

Feast of All Saints

Netta's mother

Black Girl

Valerie

Video Girl

Rowena

Decoration Day

Laurie

Uptight

Mrs. Henry

Finding Buck McHenry

Sophia

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Ruth Campanella

It's Good to Be Alive

Grandmother

A Storm in Summer

Self

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Narrator

Betty and Coretta

Doris

Steam

Grandmother Baxter

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Ruth

Virgin Island

Christine

Take a Giant Step

Jennie

Tuesday Morning Ride

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Gone Are the Days!

Narrator

After Goodbye

Self (archive footage)

Sports on the Silver Screen

Joan

That Man of Mine

Lucinda

Deadlock

Mary Tyrone

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Narrator (voice)

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Mommit Porter

Passing Glory

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

The Wall

Leah Matanzima

Countdown at Kusini

Grandmother (voice)

Whitewash

Emelda West

Taking Back Our Town

Jackie's Mother

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Narrator

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

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Vicky Kingsbury

Neighbours

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

No Way Out

Indigo

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Self (archive footage)

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Love in Syncopation

The Fight Never Ends

What a Guy

Julia Augustine

Wedding Band

Miss Candy

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Self

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Herself

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

Irene Whitfield

All God's Children

Mrs. Grimes

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Self

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Lydia Wilson

The Ernest Green Story

Annie McCall

A Thousand Words

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora is My Name!

(archive footage)

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

Elizabeth

St. Louis Blues

Thief

The Balcony

Self

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Narrator

Color Adjustment

Irma Jackson

Go Man Go

Self

Discovering William Greaves

Margo

Baby Geniuses

Self (archive footage)

Poitier's Walter Lee

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Sue Ann Lucas

The Sheriff

Self

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Narrator (voice)

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

The Unfinished Journey

Self

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

Ms. Ella

All About Us

Drugstore Girl

Easy to Get

Self

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Maude

The Way Back Home

Dr. Bianca Pearson

Chelsea D.H.O.

Self

Now is the Time