Do the Right Thing

Mother Sister

Jungle Fever

Lucinda Purify

American Gangster

Mama Lucas

America

Mrs. Harper

Cat People

Female

Love at Large

Corrine Dart

Jazztime Tale

Narrator (voice)

Just Cause

Evangeline Ferguson

Cop & ½

Rachel

Buck and the Preacher

Ruth

No. 2

Nanna Maria

The Tall Target

Rachel

Edge of the City

Lucy Tyler

A Raisin in the Sun

Ruth Younger

The Jackie Robinson Story

Rae Robinson

The Incident

Joan Robinson

A Simple Wish

Hortence

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Nanny

Politics of Love

Feast of All Saints

Elsie Claviere

Black Girl

Netta's mother

Video Girl

Valerie

Decoration Day

Rowena

Uptight

Laurie

Finding Buck McHenry

Mrs. Henry

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Sophia

It's Good to Be Alive

Ruth Campanella

A Storm in Summer

Grandmother

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

Betty and Coretta

Narrator

Steam

Doris

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grandmother Baxter

Virgin Island

Ruth

Take a Giant Step

Christine

Tuesday Morning Ride

Jennie

Gone Are the Days!

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

After Goodbye

Narrator

Sports on the Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

That Man of Mine

Joan

Deadlock

Lucinda

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Narrator (voice)

Passing Glory

Mommit Porter

The Wall

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

Countdown at Kusini

Leah Matanzima

Whitewash

Grandmother (voice)

Taking Back Our Town

Emelda West

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Jackie's Mother

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

Narrator

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Neighbours

Vicky Kingsbury

No Way Out

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Indigo

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage)

Love in Syncopation

The Fight Never Ends

What a Guy

Wedding Band

Julia Augustine

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Miss Candy

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

Herself

All God's Children

Irene Whitfield

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mrs. Grimes

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

The Ernest Green Story

Lydia Wilson

A Thousand Words

Annie McCall

Zora is My Name!

Zora Neale Hurston

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

(archive footage)

St. Louis Blues

Elizabeth

The Balcony

Thief

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Color Adjustment

Narrator

Go Man Go

Irma Jackson

Discovering William Greaves

Self

Baby Geniuses

Margo

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

The Sheriff

Sue Ann Lucas

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

All About Us

Ms. Ella

Easy to Get

Drugstore Girl

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

The Way Back Home

Maude

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Mary Wilson

Spenser: For Hire

The Great Adventure

Harriet Tubman

The Golden Girls

Mammy Watkins

China Beach

Little Bill

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rowena Finch

The Stand

Mother Abagail Freemantle

Police Woman

The Fugitive

Laura Smith

Iconoclasts

Self

Middle Ages

Estelle Williams

The Defenders

Catherine Collins

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

Lincoln

Elizabeth Keckley

Reading Rainbow

Self - Narrator (voice)

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Herself - Narrator

The Atlanta Child Murders

Faye Williams

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Grandma (voice)

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator

Touched by an Angel

LaBelle Springbelt

Great Performances

Self

Roots: The Next Generations

Queen Haley