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 ...

I saw John Pratt a few days ago and took the opportunity to ask him about the notice on Facebook about an Underground ...

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 ...

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 ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...

They say not to judge a book by its cover, but how about by its screen adaptation? A film version used to be the logical and desirable next step for any successful literary property, but in the ...

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