I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.
AISHA HINDSRosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
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It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].
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Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we’ve completed any course of study… and approach the work as a servant, not a star.
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I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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The second season of Underground does explore Canada’s role in providing a welcoming place for the thousands who were in danger of being captured and returned to their owners, and those who escaped by way of rerouting beyond the American borders.
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Learning about all these elements and aspects of her was mind-blowing and educational for me as a woman because I have to sometimes remind people that have known me for years.
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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as “freedom.”
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Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.
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[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood.
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I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.
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That is a huge part of my excitement, the fact that this generation will get such a beautifully-detailed introduction to a hero and icon that has largely lived in a few pages of our history books and in one-dimensional photographs.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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