Taraji P. Henson at 2017
Summer Television Critics
Association Press Tour
Photo: Maarten de Boer/Getty Images
TARAJI’S
WASHINGTON, D.C.
When Taraji heads home to D.C., it is all about
seeing her family. “I was born and raised in D.C.,”
she recalls. “It was not gentrified back then. It was
the ‘hood. But it was my hood and I loved it and
it made me who I am today. It’s a beautiful city. I
still love D.C. But I don’t really get to go out much
when I go home.”
That’s a combo of family demands to visit and
the fact that her fame has made it “ really difficult
for me to move around D.C.” But she has a
few favorites, including the National Museum
of African American History and Culture. “It is
beautiful, mind blowing. It gave me goosebumps.”
A Young Taraji P. Henson
Her other love is all about the seafood. “When
I get home, I say ‘take me to the wharf.’ That’s
somewhere I must go to get my blue crab, all my
seafood, so I’m always going to go to the wharf. We
buy them there and we cook them at the house.”
Photo: Pamela Sharp
National Museum of
African American History
and Culture
Photo: Smithsonian
WINTER 2017/18
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