The staircase was originally acquired due to its craftsmanship. Only later did scholars realize that it was where Harriet Jacobs suffered abuse at the hands of her enslaver.
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.
The Palestinian actress and the film’s Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir join Mehdi to talk Oscars, censorship, and the great revolt against the British of 1936.
"I think in a strange way, an uncomfortable conversation is one of the many things our film is about,” Edebiri said during a panel at the New York Film Festival.