Keep the Faith, Baby

Release Date: 2002-02-11

Overview: Harry J. Lennix stars as trailblazing and controversial African-American congressman and Civil Rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who started out as a preacher in Harlem and then went on to deal with such issues as the integration of schools in the 1940s and '50s. Vanessa Williams portrays his second wife, jazz singer Hazel Scott.

Rating: 5 / 10

Cast

Harry Lennix

as Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Vanessa Williams

as Hazel Scott

J. Winston Carroll

as Congressman Van Deerlin

Karen Robinson

as Hattie Dodson