Black Girl (1972)

Directors

Ossie Davis

The story

Protagonist Billie Jean lives in a cramped house with her mother Rosie, her grandmother Mu'Dear, her two older sisters, Norma Faye and Ruth Ann, and Mu'Dear's live-in boyfriend, Herbert. She desperately wishes to avoid the fate of Norma Faye and Ruth Ann, both of whom are high school dropouts and single mothers. Billie Jean dreams of becoming a successful dancer, but her mother and sisters belittle her attempts to improve herself.

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