Abdias Nascimento
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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
Credits
Fala Mangueira! (1983)
as Self
Ôrí (1989)
as Self
Othelo The Great (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Tribunal Bertha Lutz (1982)
Actor
Negro em Mim (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra (2008)
as Self
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Five Times Favela (1962)
as (segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
O Homem do Sputnik (1959)
as Chico
CINEMA NOIR (2004)
Actor
Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento (2017)
as Himself
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)
as Self
Abolition (1988)
as Himself