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Abdias Nascimento
Biography
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.
Known For
The Man of The Sputnik
as Chico
Ôrí
as Self
Othelo The Great
as Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
Five Times Favela
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
Fala Mangueira!
as Self
Negro em Mim
as Self (archive footage)
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
as Self (archive footage)
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
as Himself
Abolition
as Himself
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
