Once the Fugitive Slave Act took effect, the Northern states were no longer safe for those who managed to escape from being enslaved.
AISHA HINDSIt’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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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 want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.
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I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.
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I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.
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I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.
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[Harriet Tubman] is a legend, an icon, a soldier on the side of justice, a spiritual warrior, and a servant of God.
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It’s no mistake that Harriet Tubman is revisiting us, in different forms, right now, as we travel through a very contentious time in the world.
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But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I’d love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.
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The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system.
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Harriet Tubman didn’t have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement.
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Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original.
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The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you.
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When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you’re moving in what you’re supposed to do.
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Very early on in this process though I studied acting in high school and college, soon after graduation,
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She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.
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I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find.
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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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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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She was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death.
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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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There will be a wealth of facts revealed and revisited in [Underground] pertaining to Harriet Tubman.
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So that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].
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I became an instant fan of the show [Underground] seconds into the opening frames of the pilot.
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Understanding that what it is that you’re doing isn’t limited to the roles and the rejection, it’s bigger than that, it’s about your purpose in life.
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You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.
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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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