Actor Bill Duke Presented With Street Dedication - Hudson Valley Press

Actor Bill Duke Presented With Street Dedication - Hudson Valley Press

By Jennifer L. Warren POUGHKEEPSIE – Bill Duke recalls it with a nostalgic twinkle in his eyes. “My mother and father never let me use any excuse not to succeed,” reflected the trailblazer actor, director and humanitarian Friday right outside of his 56 Fallkill Avenue, Town of Poughkeepsie childhood home. Some of those harshest obstacles often came in the form of unbridled racism, including being called the “n” word. It was a namesake Duke found…