Toni Morrison: Black Matter(s) (2020)

8.5/10 53 min Documentary History

Overview

Toni Morrison (1931-2019), first black woman writer being awarded the Nobel Prize of Literature, was a critic, a book editor, a college professor, and a creative author of novels, poems and essays. She claimed the invention of a black writing and brought the light on what had kept silenced since the days of the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation: the black people history.

Cast

Toni Morrison

Self - Writer (archive footage)

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