african american actors

After suffering a heart attack, an African-American theater actor named Leo Proudhammer recounts his passionate and conflicted life, shaped by childhood loss, love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, and constant racial tension in the society through which he moves.

Examines the life of Oprah Winfrey, discussing the experiences and influences that led her from a childhood of hardship in Mississippi, to become the wealthiest and most powerful woman in the entertainment industry.