Camille Cosby

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Camille Olivia Cosby (née Hanks), author, philanthropist, and the spouse of comedian Bill Cosby (born March 20, 1944) is an American television producer, author, philanthropist, and the wife of comedian Bill Cosby.

Clair Huxtable, a character from The Cosby Show, was based on her.

Early life and education

Camille Olivia Hanks was born in Washington, D.C., to Guy A. Hanks Sr. and Catherine C. Hanks, and grew up in Norbeck, Maryland, just outside Washington. She is the oldest of four children. Cosby's father, a chemist at Walter Reed General Hospital, was employed as a nursery, and her mother worked in a nursery. Both of her parents attended college, with her father receiving a graduate degree from Fisk University and her mother receiving an undergraduate degree from Howard University.

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Cosby, who attended high school, studied psychology at the University of Maryland, where she met Bill Cosby.

Johnetta Cole of Howard University in Washington, D.C., awarded Cosby with a Doctor of Humane Letters, an honorary doctoral degree, in June 1987.

Cosby received a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1990, as well as a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.). In 1992, the first baby was born in the United Kingdom. She said in a 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey that she spoke about her, "I believe the woman said that in a 2014 interview with her that she said "I believe in Oprah Winfrey."

Personal life

Cosby went on a blind date with Bill during her sophomore year at the University of Maryland. The two married in the Catholic Church on January 25, 1964 (Camille being particularly devout).

Cosby and her husband had five children following their marriage: Erika (born 1965), Erinn (born 1966), Ennis (January 15, 1969 – February 23, 2018), Ennis (born 1976), and Evin (born 1976).

Ennis was killed on January 16, 1997, at the age of 27. Cosby wrote a letter to USA Today titled "America Taught My Son's Killer to Hate Blacks," in which she "excorrect[ed] America for instilling in her son's murderer the bigotry that fueled his lethal act." Pundits or the media didn't get the letter out in a favorable way. Authors Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom wrote that Cosby's book was "misguided despair [that] threatens further progress" in the development of race relations in the United States.

Ensa Cosby's daughter died of renal disease on February 23, 2018, while waiting for a kidney transplant at age 44.

In 1982, Cosby met Jacqueline Jackson, Jacqueline Jackson; congressman William H. Gray III; and scholar Mary Frances Berry, where the group was photographed with Pope John Paul II.

Cosby, alongside Bill, was included on the front page of Ebony's September 1966 issue. The magazine named her one of the "most Beautiful Black women" in 1996.

Cosby is a lifelong art collector, especially African American-made quilts. Ellis Ruley has several works in her personal collection. Artist Simmie Knox's portrait of her has been seen on several portraits. Cosby purchased Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Thankful Poor at Sotheby's in December 1981, a gift to her husband. In 2018, Cosby and her husband auctioned Going West by Thomas Hart Benton, which had only been on display twice since being painted in 1926, for an undisclosed sum.

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Career

Cosby avoided public life. She acted as the boss for her husband and has been portrayed as a "shrewd businesswoman." "People would rather deal with me than with Camille," Bill Cosby said during an interview with Ebony. When it comes to my company, she's been a bit difficult to cope with. She also "aided [ed] in the creation of her husband's books, including those for The Cosby Show, like a suggestion that the Huxtable family be middle rather than working class. The Cosby Show's Clair Huxtable was based on her.

Cosby also wrote forewords for many books; In 2009 for Dear Success Seeker: Wisdom from Outstanding Women by Michele R. Wright; and in 2014 for Our Woman: A Woman's Magazine, a book by Edward Lewis of Essence.

Cosby published Television's Imageable Influence: The Self-Perception of Young African Americans, a book that "dramatically charts the damaging effects of derogatory images of African Americans produced in our media companies." The book was originally intended to be the subject of her doctoral dissertation.

Cosby studied with David C. Driskell on his book The Other Side of Color: African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., which concentrated on the Cosby's art collection in 2001. Cosby and Renee Poussaint edited A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak in 2004.

Cosby was a co-founder of the National Visionary Leadership Initiative in 2001, a group whose aim was to "develop the next generation of leaders by recording, preserving, and broadcasting the lives of extraordinary African American elders."

Cosby was co-producer of the Broadway play Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, based on Sarah "Sadie" Delany's book "Bessie" Delany and Amy Hill Hearth. Cosby purchased the film, stage, and television rights to the film and later served as executive producer for the 1999 television movie of the same name.

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