Asked why she thinks it’s harder for Black women to get jobs in Hollywood than Black men, Erika Alexander says “They think men are the key to cash. Again, I’m talking about the new century, women will tell their story.” After explaining just how recently women got the right to vote and financial freedom for credit cards, Erika notes that “the streets were ruled by men. We were women hiding out but then you look back and you see Ella Baker and Fannie Hamer and all these people who were passed over because Martin Luther King and all these people were charismatic and beautiful and out front. But the people who were in the back of the house making it happen were women and now we’ll be set up to tell their stories.”
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