
Abdias Nascimento
Born:3/14/1914•Died:3/23/2011
Place of Birth:Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
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.
Filmography

Othelo The Great
20240.0

Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
20208.6

Negro em Mim
20200.0

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
20200.0

Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
20177.2

Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra
20080.0

CINEMA NOIR
20040.0

Ôrí
19898.2

Abolition
19886.7

Fala Mangueira!
19830.0

Five Times Favela
19627.8

The Man of The Sputnik
19596.7