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The other is a feature-length biopic about another pioneering Black woman, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

Says Ellis-Taylor: “I believe that women need to see a woman like Fannie Lou Hamer, someone who actually carried her own power and was not in any way subservient.”

In March, her partner Jude Hamer, who has represented GB in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympics, gave birth to their son Noah and Rowles has been passionate in speaking about sexuality, diversity and representation.

Those historical musings followed Harrison and Democratic National Convention chairwoman Minyon Moore opening the convention Monday afternoon by honoring civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson for his 1980s presidential bids and evoking the legacies of Chisholm, the first Black woman to seek the Democratic nomination, and Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black civil rights activist whose famous 1964 testimony would see its 60th anniversary on the day of Harris' Thursday nomination.

"It's just a continuation of Fannie Lou Hamer. It's a continuation of Barbara Jordan, Marcia Fudge — all of these women who leaped down on faith to say, 'Black women, you need to hear our voices. America, you need to hear our voices. We have something to say, and we're going to say it.'"