In 2016, the New York Times published a story uncovering the "secret ingredient" behind renowned whiskey brand, Jack Daniel's: the help from an enslaved man by the name of Nearest Green.
At that time, the brand was beginning to embrace the complicated ties between whiskey-making and slavery - a history that notoriously excluded Black laborers from the discussion for generations.
When Fawn Weaver read that story about Nearest Green, her life took a dramatic and surprising turn.
She is now the founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey - working to cement the legacy of Nearest Green with every bottle sold.
On Thursday night at 8:30 PM, “The A List with Alison Lebovitz” from our public media partner WTCI PBS visits the distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee - and Fawn talks to Alison about the business of preserving one man's story.