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25.06.2021 / 21:13

It Starts On The Page: Read The Script For ‘Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia’

Lifetime’s biopic Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia stars Danielle Brooks in the story of gospel icon Mahalia Jackson and her journey to becaming one of the most revered singers in American history. She also melded her music to the civil rights movement — she stood with Martin Luther King Jr at the March on Washington where she performed in hopes her music would encourage and inspire racial equality.

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19.06.2021 / 23:59

‘Mahalia’ Star Danielle Brooks On Bringing The Life And Struggles Of Mahalia Jackson To Light: “She Was Our Royalty; She Was The Queen Of Gospel”

Growing up as the daughter of a deacon and a minister, church and gospel music has had a major influence on Danielle Brooks. After her breakout role in Orange is the New Black, Brooks combined her passions for acting and singing in The Color Purple on Broadway. But Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia takes her back to her roots to play the legendary gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson. As both the star and co-executive producer, Brooks made it her goal to tell the story of everything Mahalia overcame in her life to become the legend that had inspired Brooks as a child.

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15.05.2021 / 20:15

‘Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia’ Star Danielle Brooks On How Fate Brought Her And Iconic Singer Together – Contenders TV

Growing up, Danielle Brooks, best known for Orange Is the New Black, sang every week in church and recalls seeing photos of key figures in her Sunday School classroom — icons like Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson and gospel superstar Mahalia Jackson. So she believes it was fated that she eventually would get to play the singer, she told me during the panel for Lifetime’s Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event.

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09.03.2021 / 03:53

Exclusive: Watch Danielle Brooks As Mahalia Jackson In ‘Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia’ Trailer

Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia—and ESSENCE has the exclusive for you.Lifetime has released another trailer for the forthcoming gospel biopic starring SAG and Grammy Award-winning actress Danielle Brooks as the titled lead. The screenplay was written by Bettina Gilois and Todd Kreidler and the film will be directed by Kenny Leon, who won a Tony Award for his revival of A Raisin In The Sun with Denzel Washington in 2014.Based on the true story of the life and times of Mahalia Jackson, Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia follows the gospel legend and civil rights trailblazer from her birth in New Orleans to singing at the March on Washington in 1963 with Dr.

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09.02.2021 / 22:47

‘Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia’ Star Danielle Brooks On How The Seeds Were Planted For Her To Play The Iconic Gospel Legend – TCA

Danielle Brooks was destined to play iconic gospel artist and civil rights activist Mahalia Jackson. At Lifetime’s TCA presentation of Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia today, the Tony Award nominee and Grammy Award-winning actress said that the seed was planted years before the project came about.

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