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  • Celeste Ng
    Celeste Ng

    …adaptation—produced by Ng and actors Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon, among others—was released in 2020. Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts (2022), was also well received by critics. It reflects contemporary social issues in its dystopian vision of an America where the government censors school curricula, books, and other media…

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    …adaptation—produced by Ng and actors Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon, among others—was released in 2020. Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts (2022), was also well received by critics. It reflects contemporary social issues in its dystopian vision of an America where the government censors school curricula, books, and other media…

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  • Anita Hill
    Anita Hill

    In 2016 Kerry Washington portrayed Hill in the HBO TV movie Confirmation.

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    In 2016 Kerry Washington portrayed Hill in the HBO TV movie Confirmation.

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