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	Beah Richards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beah Richards (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000) was an American actress with a long career on stage, screen and television.
		Richards was nominated for a Tony award for her 1965 performance in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.
		Beah Richards died from emphysema in her hometown of Vicksburg, Mississippi at the age of 80.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beah_Richards (360 words)

	Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Beah was always thankful for this and for her father remembering something of who he was, of where he came from, and for having a sense of wholeness and unity about him, especially during a time of intense racism and segregation.
		Beah lived her life as an activist, supporting the cause of equal rights for fl women and men, and opposing any laws or actions that supported segregation or hatred of any kind.
		Beah also used poetry on a personal level to express the frustration she felt as a fl woman living in a racist society.
	www.hbofamily.com /beah/activityguide.shtml (1297 words)

	Documentary examines the many roles of actress Beah Richards
		Yet her greatest roles were as teacher, griot, storyteller, truth seeker, poet and activist and are captured in the documentary "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," which debuts next Wednesday on HBO.
		Richards, sitting Buddha-like on a couch in her den and tethered to an oxygen concentrator due to emphysema, poured forth the blessings of a life never compromised.
		Hamilton credits Richards with freeing her from the weight of racism and lies presented as truth.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20040218beah0218fnp1.asp (780 words)

	Beah Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Beah Richards was born Beulah Richardson on July 12, 1926 in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
		Richards was a straight actress, not an entertainer, Richards never achieved star status, and specialized in feisty character roles, usually older than her years.
		Richards was stricken with emphysema when she performed on The Practice in 1997.
	www2.nemcc.edu /mspeople/beah_richards.htm (304 words)

	Beah Richards Photos - Beah Richards News - Beah Richards Information
		But for Beah Richards, who has died aged 74, it meant freedom and rejection of life in a town in which she claimed to have suffered racism "every day of my life".
		Beah Richards won an earlier Emmy Award for a guest spot on the CBS series Frank's Place.
		Beah Richards won an Emmy Award for a role in the ABC drama The Practice just days before her death in September 2000.
	www.tvtome.com /tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-12934 (421 words)

	HBO: Beah: A Black Woman Speaks - Synopsis
		Richards' poetry brought her close to fl activists and Communist Party leaders William and Louise Patterson, which in turn spurred the FBI to keep a file on her from 1951 to 1972.
		BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS reveals how Hamilton initiated Richards' last role, on the TV show "The Practice." Shortly after this performance, Richards, no longer able to care for herself independently, left her Los Angeles home of 25 years, and returned to Mississippi.
		BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS marks the documentary directorial debut of LisaGay Hamilton, who was a longtime cast member of the hit David Kelley series "The Practice," where she also made her prime-time directorial debut.
	www.hbo.com /docs/programs/beah/synopsis.html (778 words)

	Jackson Free Press \| [Crossroads] Beah Speaks
		Richards, who was never offered the roles she deserved, refused to play the maids and old women to stereotype.
		Richards’ early life was shaped by the love and pride she found in the bosom of her native Vicksburg’s fl community.
		Richards had asked Hamilton to do one last thing for her, and Hamilton performs the act at the end of the documentary as Beah’s defiant laughter rang out.
	www.jacksonfreepress.com /print.php?id=2675_0_8_0 (871 words)

	Beah Richards Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		During the 70s, Richards appeared in two plays she had written "One Is a Crowd" (1970) and "A Black Woman Speaks" (1975) and also developed a one-woman show "An Evening with Beah Richards".
		Subsequently Richards recreated her stage roles of Viney in "The Miracle Worker" (1962) and Idella in "Gone Are the Days!/Purlie Victorious" (1963).
		In 2000, shortly before her untimely death, Richards picked up a second Emmy Award for her moving guest appearance as an elderly woman whose daughter was moving to end her mother's new marriage in an episode of the ABC drama series "The Practice".
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/190901 (955 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		As Beah and I became friends, I was learning more and more, as she said that she wasn't just the old woman or the mother to everyone.
		It was Beah's philosophy that life and theater and film were not that much different, that it was all the same.
		So it is Beah's purpose in life that allowed her to go beyond that which is stereotypical in the roles that were given her.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0402/22/sun.07.html (1136 words)

	Lisa Gay Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She directed the documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks in 2003.
		This film, about pioneering fl actress Beah Richards, dealt with Hamilton seeking out Richards, an African-American actress who had broken ground making inroads for fl actresses, and who had performed in major films like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
		Richards also made a memorable late-career appearance on the TV series Designing Women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisa_Gay_Hamilton (167 words)

	A Black Woman Speaks: A Tribute to Beah Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Richards looms tall among American actors with a career that ultimately spanned more than 50 years in film, on TV and onstage.
		With a very dark complexion and full facial features, Richards overcame both discrimination from Hollywood and from within her race, and played many film roles, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, with dignity and grace.
		During the last year of her life, Richards shared the insights and truths she had gained during her celebrated and sometimes controversial career.
	www.soulciti.com /promo/beah.htm (333 words)

	'A national treasure' - The Clarion-Ledger
		Richards, a Vicksburg native, died just over a week after winning an Emmy for her performance in the television series The Practice.
		Richards, who started smoking at age 17, had emphysema and returned to Vicksburg in 2000 to live with her niece Sherry Green Fisher.
		Richards' colleagues and friends, including actors Mississippian Tonea Stewart, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Whitman Mayo, famous for playing the role Grady in the television sitcom Sanford & Son, speak of her boundless talent in the film.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0402/23/o01.html (821 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Obituary: Beah Richards
		Her career began at a time when roles for fl actors were becoming marginally less stereotypical compared with the pre-war years, when comic characters or minor parts as spear carriers or domestic servants were the norm.
		Since she was a straight actress, not an entertainer, Richards never achieved star status, and specialised in feisty character roles, usually older than her years, notably indomitable matriarchs.
		Richards also enjoyed success as a writer with One Is a Crowd, and A Black Woman Speaks and Other Poems.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0%2C4029%2C387741%2C00.html (780 words)

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		Richards was a prolific actress and playwright who Hollywood never quite knew what to do with.
		The daughter of a Mississippi Baptist minister, Richards was raised with a heady sense of - and appreciation for - her flness and a love of the arts.
		Eventually, it was Hamilton who helped Richards land a guest spot on "The Practice," a role that earned Richards her second Emmy shortly before she died Sept. 14, 2000, at 80.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/living/022104d7_blackwoman (823 words)

	Richards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richards is a surname, and may refer to many people.
		Franklin Dewey Richards, American member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Latter Day Saints
		John Richards (marshal), Lieutenant-General of the Queen's household in the United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richards (384 words)

	Emmy Winner Beah Richards Mourned - Sep 15, 2000 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Richards' screen career stretched nearly 50 years, from an early Oscar-nominated role in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with Sidney Poitier to last year's turn opposite Oprah Winfrey in Beloved.
		Richards, who returned to her native city from Los Angeles in May, was too ill to attend the Emmy ceremonies.
		Richards was nominated for an Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1967 for her attention-grabbing role as Mrs.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7092,00.html (429 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / TV / Film celebrates Beah Richards
		She missed the screening in Vicksburg, but Hamilton returned at film's end to a packed house that, she was told, had laughed, cried, and descended into pin-drop silence.
		The idea for a Richards documentary rose after Hamilton paid a visit to an ailing Richards and became convinced she had to learn the woman's story.
		Richards was a playwright, poet, dancer, journalist, drama teacher, and actor who played opposite, among others, Sidney Poitier (in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner") and James Earl Jones (in "The Great White Hope").
	boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2004/02/25/film_celebrates_beah_richards?... (579 words)

	Her 'Beah' is the joyful celebration of a friend \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		When Lisa Gay Hamilton was making the film "Beloved" in 1997, she never dreamed she'd one day make a documentary about her co-star, actress Beah Richards.
		Hamilton, making her directing debut after 20 years as an actress (she spent six seasons on "The Practice"), sees Richards not only as a great artist but also as a mentor, "an African teacher and griot," a channel for wisdom, energy and spiritual healing.
		Hamilton's film, co-produced by Demme, covers everything from Richards' childhood in Vicksburg, Miss., to the numbness she felt when she attended the Oscars ceremony just days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/11954 (347 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Veteran actress Beah Richards was too ill to travel to Los Angeles recently to receive the Emmy she won for her guest appearance on ABC's The Practice...
		Elizabeth Catlett, hordes of others, and of course Beah Richards.Frances embraced Beah as the daughter she never had, and served as hermentor...
		Byline: Nicole Herrington MIAMI _ Though Beah Richards was an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winni...
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?refid=bemorecreative&q=Beah (511 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Health keeps Beah Richards from attending Emmy Awards - September 4, 2000
		Hamilton had accepted the Emmy for Richards a week ago in Los Angeles when the early awards were passed out.
		Richards, who returned home in May, can't attend the Emmys on September 10 because health problems require her to carry oxygen.
		Richards, whose acting career has spanned more than 50 years, got an Oscar nomination in 1967 for supporting actress in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." She also won an Emmy in 1988 for a guest appearance on CBS' "Frank's Place."
	edition.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/04/emmy.richards (254 words)

	Tavis Smiley . Archive . Wednesday March 3rd . Transcript \| PBS
		It's a storyteller, an architect, a scientist, a parent, a counselor, and I say that in the film of Beah that she was my African teacher, as she was all of our African teacher.
		And, um, she and I shared many scenes together, and our roles were of tremendous weight, and, I think, to a certain extent, um, we were both so much into our own characters, as well as I was a little intimidated by her, that I didn't really speak to her all that much.
		I think of Steven Spielberg who has a wonderful project that does the same thing of getting the stories of Jewish-Americans on tape and documenting their history, and I know there are a couple folk in fl America who do that, but not to the extent, perhaps, that it ought to be done.
	www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200403/20040303_transcript.html (3609 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Richards, 77 at the time, was playing the charismatic preacher Grandma Baby Suggs in Demme's film, which opened to mostly poor reviews and bad box office.
		During the shoot, Hamilton says in the film, "Her legend intimidated me." Later, when she started making regular visits to Richards and recorded the 70 hours of footage that she digested into "Beah," Hamilton recognized how alike they were.
		Richards, who was 80 when she died in September 2000, was beyond vanity during the interviews.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RICHARDS-TV-02-25-04 (732 words)

	February 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| features \| interviews \| a black woman speaks: an interview with lisa gay hamilton
		Beah died in 2000 but not before she shared her life with Lisa in what is truly an amazing documentary, BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS.
		LGH: I went to visit Beah when I heard she had been ill. In addition to checking on her health, I wanted her wisdom on some personal and career issues I was facing.
		Beah is still with me. I carry her with me everyday.
	www.blackfilm.com /20040220/features/lisagayhamilton.shtml (845 words)

	HBO shines light on Beah Richards, a mentor to many (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Richards -- as if charged by some sixth sense, as if hearing something that no one else detected -- began to moan and cry.
		But what emerges is Richards' enormous, jubilant spirit and the sweet friendship that flowed between her and Hamilton.
		Now, Hamilton says, the entire experience feels predetermined: the three and half years it took to finish the film; a smooth collaboration with HBO, which never interfered or imposed cuts on the film; the 16-month-old son, conceived with a platonic friend (Hamilton is single), who arrived in the midst of finishing the film.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/25/DDGML56QD51.DTL (875 words)

	Beah Richards: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Beah Richards (Beulah Richardson at birth) (12 July 1920 to 14 September 2000) was an American actress with a long career on stage, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Richards was nominated for a Tony award[Click link for more facts about this topic] for her 1965 performance in James Baldwin James Baldwin quick summary:
		(Richards was the subject of a documentary created by actress LisaGay Hamilton.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beah_richards.htm (688 words)

	JULY PROFILE
		Beah Richards: face of the first world projecting a primordial presence as the mother of Being and the daughter of Time.
		Richards has the poet’s tongue and the musician’s tone while a world of listening ears transfixes itself to the living theater in her theater of life.
		Beah Richards: was always here; will always be.
	georgeedwardtait.org /july_profile.htm (168 words)

	Screening of Beah Richards documentary set
		The Volunteer Counseling Service's Community Change Project is sponsoring the viewing of an HBO documentary tomorrow to highlight the life of fl actress and activist Beah Richards, an Oscar nominee who died in 2000.
		The movie, "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks," was produced by Upper Nyack resident Jonathan Demme and written and directed by actress Lisa Gay Hamilton.
		Richards was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Sidney Poitier's mother in the acclaimed 1967 movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
	www.nyjournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050220/NEWS03/502200317/1019/NEWS03 (311 words)

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		Beah: A Black Woman Speaks reveals the remarkable life of the African-American actress, poet, teacher, dancer and political activist Beah Richards who tells her story in her own words during the last year of her life.
		From Vicksburg, Mississippi to Broadway to Hollywood, Richards remained committed to two cultures she loved deeply, the arts and the African American community.
		Beah: A Black Woman Speaks marks the documentary directorial debut of LisaGay Hamilton, a longtime cast member of the hit David Kelley series The Practice.
	www.dga.org /news/v28_5/images/dgaevnts_jan04/aascinvite-beah.html (145 words)

	WOMEN MAKE MOVIES \| Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, the directorial debut of actress LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards, best known for her Oscar nominated role in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER.
		While Richards’ struggled to overcome racial stereotypes throughout her long career onstage and onscreen in Hollywood and New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Louise Patterson.
		Enlightening and moving, the film is a fitting tribute to Richard’s life of integrity, leadership and service to the two cultures she loved so deeply—the arts and the African American community.
	www.wmm.com /filmcatalog/pages/c626.shtml (380 words)

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