The First Parish Racial Justice Advocates invites you to join us for a screening of Harriet about Harriet Tubman on Thursday, October 14 st 7 on zoom. This film takes us a step further on our Racial Justice Journey. To find the link go to *https://www.fplincoln.org/calendar <https://www.fplincoln.org/calendar>*/ Hope you can join us!
*Harriet* is a 2019 American *biographical film* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical_film>* directed by **Kasi Lemmons* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasi_Lemmons>*, Harriet had its world premiere at the **Toronto International Film Festival* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival>* on September 10, 2019The film received several accolades and nominations, particularly for Erivo's performance as Harriet, which garnered her nominations at the **Academy Awards* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actress>*, **Golden Globes* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Actress_%E2%80%93_Motion_Picture_Drama>*, and the **Screen Actors * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild_Award_for_Outstanding_Performance_by_a_Female_Actor_in_a_Leading_Role> *From the Smithsonian Magazine: * *Harriet Tubman’s first act as a free woman was poignantly simple. As she later told biographer <http://www.harriet-tubman.org/escape/> Sarah Bradford, after crossing the Pennsylvania state boundary line in September 1849, “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in Heaven.”* *The future Underground Railroad conductor’s next thoughts were of her family. “I was free,” she recalled, “but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there.”* *Tubman dedicated the next decade of her life—a period chronicled in Harriet <https://www.focusfeatures.com/harriet/>, to rescuing her family from bondage. Between 1850 and 1860, she returned to Maryland some 13 times, helping around 70 people <http://www.harriettubmanbiography.com/TubmansUGRR.html>—including four of her brothers, her parents and a niece—escape slavery and embark on new lives.*
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