CINEMA: BLACK WOMEN WIN BIG IN FILM

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January 30, 2012

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Melissa Hunter Davis is a creative entrepreneur and the master mind behind Sugarcane . Sugarcane Magazine is an online journal about art of Africa and the African Diaspora. She has an affinity for African arts, African culture, African performers and African literature. Follow her at @sugarcanemag

This past weekend was huge for Black women in film. Sugarcane congratulates Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer for their SAG awards for The Help. Ava Duvernay was also the first Black woman to win the Best Director award at Sundance Film Festival for her film “The Middle of Nowhere”

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