Before abolitionist and Harpers Ferry raider John Brown became a hymn, he was a flesh and blood human being: Bible-thumping, rifle-toting, heroic and maybe more than a little unhinged. A portrait of ...

Ethan Hawke's new series, “The Good Lord Bird,” tells the tale of abolitionist John Brown through the eyes of a fictional young enslaved person who Brown liberates, killing the child’s father in the ...

Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl and promptly “frees” him. Believing Henry to be his good ...

Jordan Todoruk is a writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He studied Screenwriting at the Toronto Film School. In 2019, He wrote and produced his first short film, The Mechanics Of A Nightmare. He ...

Following a summer during which a multitude of white people took to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, The Good Lord Bird arrived Sunday on Showtime to tell the story of perhaps the most ...

Enslaved teenager Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, becomes a member in abolitionist John Brown’s motley family during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War.

The 2013 National Book Award-winning tale centres around the travels of Henry 'Onion' Shackleford (Smith), a cross-dressing young slave who joins up with radical abolitionist John Brown (Schreiber) ...

"I was born a colored man and don't you forget it," announces Henry Shackleford in the opening pages of musician and author James McBride's novel, The Good Lord Bird. A manuscript, supposedly ...

Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this humorous and dramatic limited series based on James McBride’s acclaimed novel. It’s told from the point of view of “Onion,” a fictional enslaved ...