Viola Desmond, civil rights icon, featured on Canadian currency. She is the first woman aside from the queen and first black woman to be featured on Canadian money.
“We have to be maternal, we have to be the savior, we have to make that white character feel better, we don’t have vaginas as black women,” she said. “I got tired of celebrating movies that didn’t have me in it. I don’t mean me as Viola, I mean me as a black woman.
Executive Producers of “The March” Julius Tennon and Viola Davis attend the TIME Launch Event for The March VR Exhibit at the DuSable Museum on February 26, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois
“Not a lot of narratives are also invested in our humanity. They’re invested in the idea of what it means to be Black, but…it’s catering to the white audience. The white audience at the most can sit and get an academic lesson into how we are. Then they leave the movie theater and they talk about what it meant. They’re not moved by who we were.” Viola DavisforVanity Fair Magazine July/August 2020
