Entries tagged with “Alfre Woodard”
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Aug 07, 2020
Capital Punishment and the Arts: Clemency Lead Actress and Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Discuss Justice and the Death Penalty
The death penalty is “a losing situation for everybody,” actress and Clemency star Alfre Woodard said in a recent Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists internet forum. “It does not bring back the person who has been taken violently. It doesn’t. It destroys lives.” Woodard joined writer, activist, and Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors in a July 29, 2020 SAG-AFTRA Foundation discussion of the Woodard’s 2019 film Clemency and, as Cullors…