Shame on the author of this piece...
Someone please explain to me how speaking about the race of a performer who is black and broke barriers during the horrible time of Jim Crow, is pulling the race card. This is a woman who could not walk in the front door and sit down at many of the places in which she performed. Her scenes in the movies she was in were often cut in the South. In the end she marched with others in the Civil Rights struggles during the 50’s and 60’s. Her race, while it is not all that she was, is relevant.