James Earl Jones ... the dignity of black people, as Sidney Poitier was in the cinema. Where Poitier would not play Othello on the grounds that the Moor could be seen as a white man’s dupe ...

Hollywood royalty James Earl Jones ... Black women. In one undated CBS News interview, while sitting next to his first wife Julienne Marie — whom he divorced in 1972 — Jones is asked why ...

James Earl Jones looks at his reflection in a dressing room before starring as a Black boxer in a 1968 production of “The Great White Hope.” (Harry Benson/Daily Express/Getty Images ...

the first Black heavyweight champion boxer in 1908. James Earl Jones played Johnson (billed as Jack Jefferson) in the play-turned-movie "The Great White Hope," earning him a Tony Award and Oscar ...

Thanks, in at least a small measure, to pioneering Black performers such as James Earl Jones, we can benefit from a rich, diverse cultural heritage in America. Baltimore chef Cindy Wolf takes home ...

James Earl Jones ... in Howard Sackler’s “The Great White Hope,” a devastating story about the first black heavyweight boxing champion. Jones was also nominated for an Academy Award for ...

‘I’ll take the Black one, too.’ That’s not what he actually said, but that’s the way I like to put it.” James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in ‘The Great White Hope.’ 20th Century ...

One of America's most beloved actors, James Earl ... worked with Jones in a 1968 Broadway production of Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope, based on the life of champion black boxer Jack ...

She shared a black and white photo of Jones with the caption, “I’m incredibly saddened to learn of James Earl Jones passing today. Legendary doesn’t even begin to describe his iconic roles ...

“When I was starting out, there were only two Black actors that you saw with any regularity: Sidney Poitier in film, and James Earl Jones onstage,” added Courtney B. Vance, who played Jones ...

James Earl Jones-Black Women Now, there’s some truth in ... Like his peers Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, “The Great White Hope” actor continuously received backlash concerning his ...

Stage and screen actor James Earl Jones, who won Tony Awards for "The Great White Hope" and "Fences ... in "Claudine," "The Man" (as the first Black president), "The Bingo Long Traveling All ...