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Teri J. Vaughn talks hollywood, her divorce, and her new marriage in an interview with Essence.com

Here’s a few key points of the interview.

ON HOLLYWOOD:

Essence.com: What would be a start in the right direction to give Black actresses a fair playing ground in Hollywood?

T.V.: A start is anyone who takes the time to watch this documentary that’s a start. Again, our voice is the most important and powerful thing we have. Not only a voice to talk about what’s wrong, but who we are as Black women. The images that are portrayed of us are so limited and don’t show the breadth of who we are. It’s disheartening for me to think that my nieces when they watch television they receive such a narrow view of a Black woman and a view of a woman that I don’t necessarily want them to see or whom they never see in their home. They don’t see Miss New York; they see their mother who has a Masters and is a social worker and they see their aunt who is a producer and an actress so why can’t they turn on the television and see more Black women like them on TV?
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