Yet he is a man, not a totem, and I bet he appreciates being treated as such. This novel, The Underground Railroad, is touched with greatness. It is also touched with okayness. It is an uneven ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

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 ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

and now he’s preparing to launch this adaptation of The Underground Railroad based on the Colson Whitehead novel. Thuso Mbedu stars as Cora in The Underground Railroad During their respective ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists.

Hammack is writing a book on the Underground Railroad to Mexico, which will include Webber's story. Between the lines: Promoting Webber's story today feels like a new clandestine act since Texas ...

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has announced its schedule of Black History Month programming that includes ...