But a story about how Jack Daniel began his distillery is only now gaining attention. Some of the first clues about the role of Nearest Green were in Daniel's official biography, published in 1967 ...

and ever since Jack Daniel opened his own distillery, seven generations of Green's descendants have worked at Jack Daniel's. That history is one of the reasons that Weaver wanted to uncover the ...

Jack Daniel's is the world's most popular whiskey brand, but until recently, few people knew the liquor was created by Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black man who mentored Daniel.

This episode, we follow Weaver as she tracks down Green’s descendants and pieces together the true story of his relationship with Jack Daniel—a story that the Jack Daniel Distillery now says ...

In 2016, via the New York Times, Clay Risen stamped pieces of Nathan "Nearest" Green's legacy into America's mind through his article, "Jack Daniels Embraces a Hidden Ingredient: Help From a Slave." ...

“Jack Daniel, the man, offers a model for the type of DEI we need today,” she said. In the 1800s, a young Daniel was introduced to a formerly enslaved man named Nathan “Nearest” Green who ...

Jack Daniel's is a famous whiskey brand, but Daniel didn’t create the method for distilling Tennessee whiskey. He learned it from a formerly enslaved man named Nearest Green. Fawn Weaver created ...

Through extensive research, personal interviews, and the uncovering of long-buried documents, Weaver brings to light not only the remarkable bond between Nearest Green and Jack Daniel but also ...

This move is particularly ironic given that Jack Daniel’s owes much of its success to a Black man — Nathan “Nearest” Green — who was instrumental in perfecting the whiskey distillation ...