Queen Latifah has lately thanked Taraji P. Henson for elevating accentuation for Dim actresses on being underpaid in Hollywood.
“Thank you, Taraji, for standing up for all of us,” mentioned Latifah right through her opening monologue on the 2024 NAACP Symbol Awards.
The display’s host later requested all Dim actresses to arise as much as obtain the popularity and constitute everybody.
Upcoming, the celebrities had been about to sit when Latifah requested them no longer to sit down simply but and requested, “Everybody else in this hall room stand up for all of us Black actresses who have been representing for us.”
“Support us. Join us. Because it’s you who stand next to us every day. We know this and we want to say thank you,” she added.
All over the awards rite, Henson took the degree next receiving coveted award for Exceptional Supporting Actress in a Movement Image for The Colour Pink.
Generation turning in her acceptance accent, Henson expressed her gratitude to all those that stood via her right through the click excursion for the film when she to begin with talked in regards to the pay inequality that happens in Hollywood.
“I just want to thank you guys so much for showing up for me all the time, not just to the box office or watching what I’m in but y’all saw what happened and y’all showed up, you showed out, you showed me love,” said Henson.
She remarked, “It’s a scary thing to speak your truth but I urge you all to speak your truth because at the end of the day that’s all we have.”
“And like they say, the truth will set you free. And not only that, it will set somebody else free,” remarked Henson.
