- Anne Rice wrote a novel called The Feast of All Saints (1979) about gens de couleur libres, free people of color, who fled Haitian Revolution and lived in New Orleans in early 1800s. The 2001 TV movie starring Jasmine Guy, James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, Jennifer Beals and Robert Ri’chard #BlackSky
- Queen Ruby Dee Robert Ri’chard (Breanna's boyfriend Arnaz) Gloria Reuben (ER) Victoria Rowell (Y&R) etc I read an autobiography with similar plot, showing how common it was for enslavers to bequeath Black women that they fathered children with (and the children) to their white offspring. #BlackSky
- They found almost every light-skinned actor to be in The Feast of All Saints. Ann Rice wrote a character, Marcel, with blue eyes, blond hair and features that would not allow him to pass for white like his sister. Robert Ri’chard from TV show One on One plays him. So many familiar faces.
