Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
AISHA HINDSThe show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
More Aisha Hinds Quotes
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Her spirit is one that we absolutely need today, as we face odds that are akin to the divisive and systemic oppression that we read about in our history books, but it’s taken on a modern-day articulation of itself.
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.
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When that drone shot carried us through the main house with Rosalie, played so unflinchingly-brilliantly by Jurnee Smollett Bell, I signed on for the ride.
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Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.
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One or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.
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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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One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO.
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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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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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Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.
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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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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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We’re living in a time where we all got to stay woke !
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The dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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