Both the show and Whitehead's book hew to the premise of an alternate reality where the underground railroad, which in our world was a network of safehouses and routes that Black people used to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

After several... “As it had ever been with Nickel, no one believed them until someone else said it,” Whitehead (The Underground Railroad) writes in the present-day prologue to this story ...

This new Underground Railroad will come complete with engineers ... The new miniseries is based on the novel by the same name by Colson Whitehead. It’s directed by Academy Award winner Barry ...

Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism, as well as letters, drama and music, were announced on April 10 in the 101st year of the awards. The prizes were established in the will of renowned ...

Like The Underground Railroad, Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning 2016 novel, The Nickel Boys draws from American history to ensure readers experience the pressing ...

Whitehead is the author of many novels including "The Nickel Boys," which was recently made into an award-winning film. He also wrote "The Underground Railroad," "Sag Harbor," "Harlem Shuffle ...