Nicole beharie is redefining the strong black woman on screen

Nicole beharie is redefining the strong black woman on screen

Yahoo - World·2021-02-20 06:01

There’s a moment in “Miss Juneteenth” where Nicole Beharie’s character, Turquoise, receives the worst news imaginable. Her estranged husband and the father of her 15-year-old daughter Kai admits that he doesn’t have the money to help pay for Kai’s pageant gown as he’d promised. For Turquoise, the Miss Juneteenth pageant is not just a pageant. It’s a chance for her daughter to win a full-ride college scholarship and, ultimately, escape a life of struggle and stagnation in Fort Worth, Texas. In other words, the pageant is everything.

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