Glynn Turman

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Summary

Glynn Turman is an American actor, writer, and director whose career spans Broadway, film, and television, including A Raisin in the Sun, Cooley High, A Different World, The Wire, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. His work includes recurring stories of black American life and history. Turman has said arts and culture can draw attention to injustice, linked Trayvon Martin’s killing to Emmett Till’s, and described the value of telling stories from black perspectives; he also founded Camp Gid-D-Up for young people after the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. No public party endorsements or DEI affiliations are on record.