DNC: Jeffrey Wright Narrating Kamala Harris Video to Premiere on First Night (EXCLUSIVE)
Jeffrey Wright is the latest celebrity to show his support for Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
The Oscar-nominated actor is narrating a video about the vice president that will premiere Monday evening during the first night of the DNC.
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The video, which also features Beyonce’s “Freedom,” will be played in the United Center in Chicago and broadcast simultaneously around 6:30 p.m. PT.
News of Wright’s participation comes on the heels of Sunday’s announcement that Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, Ana Navarro and Tony Goldwyn will host the convention, which runs from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22.
Goldwyn hosts on Monday, followed by Navarro on Tuesday, Kaling on Wednesday and Washington on Thursday. Harris will officially accept the Democratic Presidential Nomination on Thursday, the final night of the convention.
On Wednesday, “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus will host a daytime panel featuring the country’s Democratic women governors to discuss the leadership of Democratic women governors as state executives, this historic class of women governors and the DGA Women Governors Fund.
Wright, who was nominated for a best actor Academy Awards earlier this year for his work in “American Fiction,” narrated a radio spot in 2016 for the DNC, urging voters to make history again by voting for Hilary Clinton after Barack Obama served as the nation’s first Black president.
Wright is a longtime political activist. A Washington, D.C., native, he told Newsweek in 2018, “Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.”
Shortly after Joe Biden endorsed Harris when he left the presidential race, many famous faces voiced immediate support for the vice president, including Barbra Streisand, Megan Thee Stallion, Sally Field, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Nixon, Spike Lee, Katy Perry, Kathy Griffin, Wilson Cruz and Charli XCX, who cheekily posted on X: “kamala IS brat.”
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