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• While in college, performed in stage productions alongside Samuel L. Jackson, who later became her husband.
• Played the role of the Lady in Red in Alliance Theatre Company's national tour of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf from 1977 to 1978.
• In 1987, played Ida B. Wells in New Federal Theater's production of Boogie Woogie and Booker T.
• Served on the Spelman College Board of Trustees from 1999 to 2006.
• In 2005, received the Frederick D. Patterson Award from the United Negro College Fund along with her husband, Samuel L. Jackson.
• Received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Spelman College in 2012.