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Daveed Diggs

Biography

Daveed Diggs

Daveed Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical "Hamilton" by Lin-Manuel Miranda, for which he won a Grammy and Tony. He also cowrote, produced and stars in the film Blindspotting.

Daveed Diggs

Books by Daveed Diggs

The Deep
by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes - Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction

Yetu holds the memories for her people --- water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners --- who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone except for the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu, who remembers for everyone, but the memories are destroying her. So she flees to the surface and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past --- and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity --- and own who they really are.