The first trailer for the anticipated Harriet Tubman biopic was released this week and it’s hard not to be moved by the harrowing scenes.
The first trailer for the anticipated Harriet Tubman biopic was released this week and it’s hard not to be moved by the harrowing scenes.
Tubman’s story needs no frills to sell tickets – the civil rights activist beat every odd to escape from her slave master in the late 1800s, only to return and help others, who were also enslaved, on a similar path to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
It’s a remarkable tale in history that still stings for African-Americans – and any black person for that matter – today. Cynthia Erivo has taken on the heavy responsibility of portraying Tubman’s in the eponymously-titled biopic. Read more
