The actor launched the Djimon Hounsou Foundation in 2019, an initiative dedicated to bridging the Black diaspora and combating modern-day slavery. However, the core of Hounsou’s work centers ...

By Lexi Carson Djimon Hounsou is opening ... hear that “one of the first big Black actors” that he saw growing up in big-budget films was struggling. Hounsou replied: “That’s a sign ...

(CNN) — Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he ...