And yet, the irony shouldn’t be lost on us that Jack Daniels wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t for the contributions of a Black man. In 1866, Jasper Newton Daniel, also known as “Jack ...

"This is somehow both better and worse than Jack Daniels Black Label. I’m not surprised that bananas made a prominent spot in my notes given how much banana I get from the standard Jack Daniels.

More: How Jack Daniel's Whiskey fits into Black History Month More: Distillery, music venue slated for Tennessee walking horse farm She had come to Lynchburg to research the roots of a former ...

to be the Jack Daniel Distillery’s first master distiller, and thus the first Black master distiller on record in the United States. Weaver discovered that sometime after 1881, Daniel moved his ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.