Best Of: Actor Leslie Uggams / Martha's Vineyard's Indigenous Past & Present
From Fresh Air
Published 7/26/2025
Actor and singer Leslie Uggams talks about her remarkable career, which started when she was 6. She was later the first Black woman to host a TV variety show. In the 1977 TV miniseries Roots, she played Kunta Kinte's daughter. More recently she's been in Empire, American Fiction, and the Deadpool…