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Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present

Jul 26, 2025 · 48m
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  • Leslie Uggams, now 82, has had a remarkable career starting at age 6 and became the first Black woman to host a TV variety show
  • She has appeared in Roots, Empire, American Fiction, Deadpool films, and continues working in The Gilded Age
  • Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer, discusses his book Nothing More of This Land about Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous identity and survival

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Leslie Uggams
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