‘Kindred’ creator on adapting sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler’s novel

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has made his TV debut as creator of the series “Kindred,” an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel about a Black woman who travels through time between present day Los Angeles and a 19th century plantation. Jacobs-Jenkins joins Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart to discuss reimagining the American classic and why he thinks more stories about slavery need to be told. 

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