PERSPECTIVE: ‘Uncle Nearest’ Green lives on through the successful whiskey brand named for him NABJ Black News & Views

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PERSPECTIVE: ‘Uncle Nearest’ Green lives on through the successful whiskey brand named for him NABJ Black News & Views

The story of Nearest Green is a history lesson that stimulates the imagination. The fact that a Black man, a former slave, was the distilling genius behind the success of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, one of the world’s major liquor brands, is intriguing. In recent years, Nearest Green has finally gotten the recognition he deserves.