Category: The Long Walk to Freedom
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By Christian Coleman | We took the crushing news pretty hard. The TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s “Kindred” didn’t get a fair chance when it was cancelled nearly a month and half after all eight episodes were uploaded in December 2022 to stream on Hulu. With the blessing of Butler’s estate, playwright and showrunner…
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Read a selection from Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself. It is one of the earliest works by an African American woman writer.
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The first book about the runaway slave phenomenon written by fugitive slaves themselves.
Beacon Broadside 