In addition to being one of the most acclaimed actors of our time, with a caree spanning 30 years from Places in the Heart, The Color Purple, the Lethal Weapon series and the award-winning To Sleep with Anger, Danny Glover has also produced, executive produced and financed numerous projects for film, television and theatre. Among these are Good Fences, 3 AM, Freedom Song, Get on the Bus, Deadly Voyage, Buffalo Soldiers, The Saint of Fort Washington and To Sleep with Anger, as well as the series Courage and America's Dream.
Since co-founding Louverture Films with Joslyn Barnes, Glover has executive or co-produced BAMAKO, AFRICA UNITE, TROUBLE THE WATER, and the
forthcoming SALT OF THIS SEA and SOUNDTRACK FOR A REVOLUTION.
The recipient of countless awards for his humanitarian and advocacy efforts on behalf of economic and social justice causes, Glover is a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from Amnesty International.
Labor unions have been a real force for good in the life of my family, and in so many other families like mine. I am who I am, and who I have been able to become, in large part because of the strength and resources my parents and aunts were...
Between the corporate media circus coverage of the US presidential elections and the "security" arrangements in store for any prospective DNC and RNC protesters, it struck me that there is very little room for anything between spectacle and surveillance these days. Fortunately not everyone is taking this lying down.
Posted June 10, 2009 | 15:38:22 (EST)