Viola Davis, one of the members of the 2017 TIME 100, gave a moving toast at the TIME 100 Gala Tuesday night.
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Davis — who stars in How to Get Away With Murder and won an Oscar this year for her role in Fences, based on August Wilson's play of the same name — shared a story of when she traveled to Gambia when she was studying at Juilliard. Davis said she was on a compound of the Mandinka tribe when women called " Kenyala," who were infertile, performed a ritual where hundreds of people would gather and scream and sing.
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