Category: Events
Upcoming events about Hattie’s legacy.
NPR Interview about Howard University Celebration
On October 2nd, NPR published a story, Howard University receives a replacement for Hattie McDaniel’s missing Oscar and interviewed Phyllis Rashad, Jacqueline Stewart and our very own Kevin John Goff.…
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Watch Recording of Hattie’s Come Home Ceremony
Ms. McDaniel was the first black performer to win the Oscar at the 1940 Academy Awards for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind. Ms. McDaniel bequeathed her Best Supporting…
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Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award to be Reissued!
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences will be reissuing Hattie McDaniel’s Academy Award, which went missing over 50+ years ago after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,…
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