Kimberly Ann Harrison talks about how Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry helped her understand her grandmother's experience with racism and the toll it took on her family. She wants to create media through a Black lens for her sons, shaped by what literature taught her about intergenerational pain.
Do you remember those conversations with your grandmother?
Absolutely the idea that her and her five siblings could not walk from battle street down to school without being called the N word every single day but to pick up a book and literally hear the same type of stories that my grandmother was telling me I'm like okay, this really happened the idea that children have to deal with adult situations at that age you're.
Killing their imagination.
The mental toll their.
Creativity and it's.
Such robbery.
It'S just learned helplessness and.
That'S scary how.
Did you decide to adap Washington.
Black I've never seen a show told through this lens I have two boys did.
You have them in mind?
I definitely had them in mind there's no limit to what any of us can do and I just wanted my boys to sit down and watch that.
It's a big question how did roll of thunder hear my cry change your life?
Roll of thunder hear my cry changed my life because it's.
