Colman Domingo is practicing racial healing on and off the screen -- and wants you to join him
Colman Domingo has implicitly invited audiences to join his journey of racial healing across a Hollywood career spent largely in supporting roles
NEW YORK — Colman Domingo has implicitly invited audiences to take the journey of racial healing throughout his career.
The Afro-Latino actor's portrayals often complicate popular representations of Black masculinity. There's his Oscar-nominated Bayard Rustin, the unsung gay civil rights leader. Or Mister, the abusive antagonist of “The Color Purple” who sheds his misogyny in a last bid at redemption. His most recent film, “Sing Sing,” follows the wrongly incarcerated leader of a prison theater troupe.
Now enjoying the hard-earned spotlight for those leading performances and his fashion-forward looks, Domingo is thinking more intentionally about his off-screen platform. And that call for racial healing has grown more explicit through a new partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
The children's opportunity nonprofit has long centered antiracism, according to president La June Montgomery Tabron. To help all youth thrive, she said, it’s necessary to address root causes like racial inequity.
In 2017, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation promoted the first National Day of Racial Healing, which is now recognized annually after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Kellogg leaders hope a “storyteller” like Domingo can encourage year-round racial healing, which the foundation describes as «the practice of reflecting on personal experiences, confronting past wrongs and present consequences, and cultivating trustful relationships.”
“When we look at Colman and his work around just lifting up all of humanity and creating an empathetic response to stories, that’s exactly what the core of racial equity
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