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Aunjanue Ellis Wants Her Success to Make Black Women Proud

American producer and actress of stage and screen Aunjanue Ellis has made it her mission to make Black women proud. “I want to speak for them and to them in ways where they feel honored, where they feel that I’m doing and saying something that reflects their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their aspirations,” she said in a June 2022 interview with Variety…

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Edith Head Reigns as the Queen of Costume Design

With a record-setting eight Academy Awards, Edith Head won more times for costume design than any other designer to this day. This is despite the fact that the Academy Award for Best Costume Design wasn’t a category until 1948, well into her established career. She was nominated a record 35 times for Best Costume…

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Connie Britton Keeps Getting Better with Age

Leading lady Connie Britton has delivered so many notable character portrayals over the years that it’s challenging to keep track of them all. This fact is especially heartening since she has played many of them since turning 40 in an industry that tends to worship youth. At 55, Britton is still going strong. Britton was born Constance Elaine Womack in Boston, Massachusetts, and started acting by performing in plays at her high school…

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Dr. Christine Grady Has Dedicated Her Life to Keeping Medical Science Ethical

Dr. Christine Grady is a nurse-bioethicist and a senior investigator who currently serves as the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. She has authored more than 175 papers in the fields of biomedical and bioethics literature and authored or edited several books, including, “The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics”…

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Aimee Garcia Went from Child Star to Grown-Up Phenomenon

Aimee Garcia broke into the entertainment industry at age 7 as a professional dancer in Paul Mejia’s “Cinderella” and hasn’t slowed down since. A Chicago native of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, she is best known for her roles as Veronica Palmero on the ABC sitcom “George Lopez,” Yvonne Sanchez on the CBS period drama “Vegas,” Jamie Batista…

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