LAist

Barry Jenkins Knew Black Pain Had To Be Central To 'The Underground Railroad'

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Post and Courier

Because of S.C.'s old laws, genealogy is hard for descendants of slaves. Jenkins Institute wants to help

Martin-Carrington, 86, went back to Jenkins to create an opportunity for North Charleston's youth, particularly those who are descendants of African slaves, to track their roots. With her cousin's ...
Chicago Tribune

Making a TV show about slavery could undo you. Unless the director steps up like this

Barry Jenkins vividly recalls the moment he first heard about the Underground Railroad. “I was around 5 or 6, and when I first heard those words, it wasn’t even imagined — I saw Black people on trains ...
Salon

“The Underground Railroad” attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved

Speaking on NPR’s Fresh Air, Barry Jenkins, the director of “The Underground Railroad,” noted that “before making this show … I would have said I’m the descendant of enslaved Africans.” “I think now ...
Los Angeles Times

In ‘The Underground Railroad,’ an Oscar winner reimagines slavery from the inside out

The brutal reality of slavery, the fantastical storytelling of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the cinematic poetry of an Oscar-winning director meet in Amazon Prime Video’s “The Underground ...
insider.si.edu

Ties that bound : founding first ladies and slaves / Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Washington. The widow Washington ; Martha Dandridge ; Married lady ; Mistress of Mount Vernon ; Revolutionary war ; First lady ; Slaves in the president's house ; Home again -- Jefferson. Martha ...