Barry Jenkins: I Want To Unpack The Generational Trauma of Slavery
The ‘Underground’ director tells Momentum how his Amazon Prime series tells a different slavery story.
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7 min readJun 9, 2021
Barry Jenkins’ 10-part adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad had me drinking wine, burning candles, chanting psalms, and asking for…