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Film: "Harriet"

Harriet Tubman's courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. This is the story of one of America’s greatest heroes.

Friday, January 24, 2020
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films, Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Fee required. Tickets required.

This inspiring biopic about one of America’s greatest heroes follows slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman as she escapes her vicious masters in Maryland to find freedom in Philadelphia. Not content to just save herself, Tubman risks her life again and again on treacherous journeys back into the maelstrom to liberate her family and dozens of other slaves. Moving under cover of darkness through the Underground Railroad, “Moses” uses her courage and cunning to thwart slave trackers at every turn.

Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Erivo portrays Tubman with the grace and righteous dignity the subject deserves, while supported by a cast that includes Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), as abolitionist William Still. Director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou) crafts a narrative as tense and thrilling as it is accurate, a rousing depiction of one woman’s selfless struggle to change history, no matter the danger.  D: Kasi Lemmons, US, 2019, 2h5m

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