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There are interesting connections between these people. 
While doing theater in Atlanta, one of my closest friends and partner in everything 1970's was Samuel L. Jackson. We worked together, lived next door to each other and hung out together for years. I was sort of his"unoffical" photographer. For several years I had a studio /rehearsal space at my grandmothers house, I was always taking pictures/ portraits at that point and Sam was one of the many actors / friends who visited and had a portrait taken. ( Bill Nunn, Kenny Leon also)

While I worked at the Georgia Film Office, I was asked to assist a writer doing research for a TV movie. She explained that she wanted to meet black families to help her flesh out her characters. One of the people I arranged for her to meet with was my grandmother, Ann Nixon Cooper. When i read the finished script, "Out of Darkness",  I was very surprised to see that Diana Ross's character, Paulie, was a Cooper. And Paulie Cooper, lived in a big house like my grandmothers' and her father had been a doctor. Just like my Grandfather, Dr.Albert B.Cooper jr. 

When I was working on "Remember the Titans", the art department needed photographs of a black family. I started to tell the story of my family and the art director asked me if they could use Cooper family photos in Denzel's (playing coach herman boone) house. I copied the photos from Ann Cooper's vast collection and they were the family photos used in the movie as Denzel's (coach Boone's) family photos. 

Then everything changed when, President Obama called my grandmother, Ann Nixon Cooper. He told her he was going to use her story in his November 2008 acceptance speech in Chicago. And BOOM!, the world came to the Cooper home in Atlanta.