From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...