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Fences star Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress and used her speech to recall her late father, a former horse groomer who died of cancer while working as a janitor at McDonald’s. "One of the most devastating things that went through my mind when he took his last breath was: did his life matter?," said Davis.
Davis added that Fences writer August Wilson had helped prove that “our lives matter as African Americans. The horse groomer, the janitor, the people who grew up under the heavy boot of Jim Crow. The people who did not make it into the history book but they have a story, and those stories deserve to be told because they lived.”
Fences star Viola Davis won Best Supporting Actress and used her speech to recall her late father, a former horse groomer who died of cancer while working as a janitor at McDonald’s. "One of the most devastating things that went through my mind when he took his last breath was: did his life matter?," said Davis.
Davis added that Fences writer August Wilson had helped prove that “our lives matter as African Americans. The horse groomer, the janitor, the people who grew up under the heavy boot of Jim Crow. The people who did not make it into the history book but they have a story, and those stories deserve to be told because they lived.”
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