Digging to see if there's a Smollett Kamala link. Lots of Harrises no solid connects yet. This Fake News NYT article has some interesting bits in it though.
Look who makes an appearance
>Ms. Smollett-Bell, 29, who made her mark as an actress by the age of 10, with the 1997 film “Eve’s Bayou,” is one of the leads in “Underground,” a new WGN America show about a group of slaves who try to escape from their Georgia plantation; her brother guest-stars. Underground, created by the writers Misha Green and Joe Pokaski (“Heroes”), and co-executive-produced by the singer
John Legend, who oversees the music
>The Smolletts have also been outspoken politically and, since their school years, devoted to causes like H.I.V./AIDS prevention and ending apartheid. They were raised in the orbit of the Black Panthers and, lately, have lent their voices to the Black Lives Matter movement. Their trajectory, from child stars to successful adults, is born of their family and its history of activism.
>Jussie and Jurnee still count their mother, Janet Smollett, as their only acting coach. An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights. “My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader. “To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”
>“It makes it hard to just be an actor and to sell your soul, because you have this conscience,” said Ms. Smollett-Bell, who is married to the singer Josiah Bell. “I think that’s why I say no to projects, that’s why Jussie says no to projects, and that’s why we fight for the ones that we’re told ‘no’ to.”
Another interesting connection
>She started modeling as an infant — “At a year old, she was like a mix of Diana Ross and Elizabeth Taylor,” her brother said. “She was boss from the beginning” — and the other children followed. Her recurring role on the mid-90s show “Full House” (a character written for a white actress, which her mother got her to audition for),
>They were cast in the 1994 ABC sitcom “On Our Own,” as siblings whose parents had died, and were left to fend for themselves.
Bonus pic of Smollettfag larping black panther from his twatter