IN 1979, AUTHOR Octavia E Butler’s Kindred was published, a benchmark work about a contemporary young black woman who spontaneously time travels back to 1815, where she experiences American slavery first-hand. A powerful fusion of genres that became a global bestseller, it remains a seminal work of literary fantasy. Despite its popularity, however, no one managed to crack how to adapt the narrative into a film or television series until Branden Jacobs-Jenkins came along.
A MacArthur Fellow playwright and producer for recent genre series and , Jacobs-Jenkins tells Red Alert that he was aware had been
