Acting
Aaron Joseph Meeks (born April 26, 1986 in Watts, California) is an NAACP Image Award-winning American actor. He is best known for his role as Ahmad Chadway on the Showtime television series Soul Food. From Wikipedia (us), the free encyclopedia
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a needy city kid for the summer as part of a charity program run by rich debutante Gloria. Abel immediately vetoes the plan, but it is too late. The kid, young Herman Washington, is already on his way...
The life of the legendary showman Bill Robinson, African American tap dancing star of stage and screen, better known as Mr. Bojangles.
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.
A true to life drama about KC, a 17 yr old white girl from Norfolk, VA, who elopes with Eddie, her 33 yr old lover, to California seeking relief from an abusive stepfather and to follow her dreams of a better life.