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Making her acting debut at age eight in the film Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004), she landed the career-turning role of Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee (2006) with Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne. The film won 11 awards from various organizations, plus an additional 15 nominations; Keke herself won four and had three noms. Her next two film credits were as Rose Cutler in Cleaner (2007) with Samuel L. Jackson, and Jasmine in The Longshots(2008) with Ice Cube. In 2008, she was cast as True Jackson in her own Nickelodeon TV series, True Jackson, VP, a part she held from 2008-2011, taking her from age 15 to age 18, officially ushering her into adulthood. Want Free Access to Keke Palmer Sexy Pics & Clips? Click Here An accomplished singer as well as an actress, she held her own...

When the Rev. Al Sharpton implored white America to “get your knee off our necks” at the memorial of George Floyd, his words were carried by news outlets across the globe. Meanwhile in the U.S., the Rev. William J. Barber II has been an ever-present voice in the protests, prompting some to place him as the successor to past civil rights greats. That people of the cloth are at the forefront of the current protests over police brutality should not be a surprise. From the earliest times of the United States’ history, religious leaders have led the struggle for liberation and racial justice for black Americans. As an ordained minister and a historian, I see it as a common thread running through the history of the United States, from black resistance in the earliest periods of slavery in the ...

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Keke Palmer Grew Up In Front Of The Cameras, And Grew Up Real Fine

Black religious leaders are up front and central in US protests – as they have been for the last 200 years