Gbenga Akinnagbe

Personal context

Summary

Gbenga Akinnagbe is an actor and writer known for The Wire, The Deuce, and Broadway’s To Kill a Mockingbird. His roles include crime dramas and stories about race and American history. He founded Liberated People, an apparel brand that supports nonprofits, and has described himself as an activist; he protested New York’s stop-and-frisk policy and has discussed black lives and racism in connection with his work. In a Washington Post essay about playing Tom Robinson, he wrote about making work that presents black people as whole people. No public party affiliation or campaign endorsement is on record.