From May 3 to June 28, 1908, the Springfield Daily News and Press Republic published a series of letters by the Rev. J.R. Scurry, a local conductor on the Underground Railroad. Scurry’s 1908 accounts ...

“I think freedom is just that. It’s freedom to do what you want to do, but it also comes with a great amount of responsibility.” — William Jackson Harper, Actor, ‘The Underground Railroad’ The period ...

The stars of The Underground Railroad, Amazon’s acclaimed limited series from Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, joined me for Wednesday night’s Deadline Virtual Screening Series. I moderated a discussion ...

Amazon Prime has announced it will air a 10-part series of The Underground Railroad, though Amazon Prime has not revealed the release date for the series which will be directed by Moonlight director ...

Amazon's new heralded series “The Underground Railroad” is deeply disturbing. But director Barry Jenkins’ view of slavery and the underground railroad, based on Colson Whitehead’s historical fiction ...

The cast of Barry Jenkins‘s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel The Underground Railroad is starting to come together. Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre and Chase W. Dillon have been set to ...

The Underground Railroad challenges America to confront what has been happening in the past and still is today. I'll admit right off the bat, I'm only two episodes in. The first episode had me piqued.

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Barry Jenkins vividly recalls the moment he first heard about the Underground Railroad. “I was around 5 or 6, and when I first heard those words, it wasn’t even imagined — I saw Black people on trains ...

The Underground Railroad came out on Amazon Prime on Friday, May 14, and has already received rave reviews. Based on the book of the same name by Colson Whitehead, the drama tells of how a young woman ...

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While some might take their freedoms for granted, The Underground Railroad—a 10-part Amazon series directed by Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...