The planned 20-Dollar-bill version with the image of Harriet Tubman was stopped by Trump‘s government. Tubman was one of the most prominent figures of the Underground Railroad, which helped enslaved people escape to the northern states with a network of secret “safehouses“ and fought on the side of the US against the slave-owning confederation in the Civil War. Kasi Lemon‘s film tells her life story, starting with her own escape from a cotton plantation.

Pamela Jahn

Translation: Elinor Lewy