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Four Women

In this experimental short by Julie Dash — which is one of the first experimental films by a Black woman filmmaker — dancer Linda Martina Young interprets the same-titled ballad by Nina Simone and embodies the spirits of four women: Aunt Sarah, Saffronia, Sweet Thing and Peaches. These women represent common stereotypes of Black women attempting to survive in America.

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