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

Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She was later the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. In the 1977 TV miniseries Roots, she played Kunta Kinte's daughter. More recently she's been in Empire, American Fiction, and the Deadpool films " and is still going strong at 82. Also, writer Joseph Lee talks about what it means to be a member of the Aquinnah …

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