Also, I think some of Whitehead’s moral and historical judgments are wrong. But I remember that it’s his book, not mine or yours. The Underground Railroad is the story of a young woman ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in The Underground Railroad During their respective childhoods, Jenkins and Whitehead envisioned the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad, deep underground that ...

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Colson Whitehead’s novel is the subject of the historical drama written and directed by Barry Jenkins.

Previous winners of the medals, established in 2012 with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, includes Donna ...

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The order was filed Sept. 1. Ballard, the founder of Operation Underground Railroad, was accused of silencing a witness to ...

Colson Whitehead: I wanted to write from an early age ... Of course, Harriet Jacobs is a big referent for the character of Cora [in The Underground Railroad]. But I didn’t write that much. JD: What ...

Whitehead is the author of the novels “The Intuitionist,” “John Henry Days,” “Apex Hides the Hurt,” “Sag Harbor,” “The Underground Railroad,” “The Nickel Boys,” and “Harlem Shuffle,” among others. He ...

and an end to this terrible war,” said Whitehead, whose novels “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” each won a ...