When lead actress Thuso Mbedu walked onto the set of “The Underground Railroad,” she often had to brace herself for what her character, the enslaved Cora, and those she loved were about to ...

Barry Jenkins's adaptation of "The Underground Railroad," Colson Whitehead's award-winning novel, confronts slavery — and celebrates the resilience of the people who were oppressed by it.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Colson Whitehead about his new book, The Underground Railroad, in which slaves ride a a real railroad through time to see racism in different eras.

Barry Jenkins tackles Colson Whitehead's heralded novel 'The Underground Railroad,' about a literal and metaphorical journey for freedom in the antebellum South in this 10-part Amazon limited series.

“The Underground Railroad” has an almost dreamlike quality, exploring an alternate history of the antebellum South that filters Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book through ...

The Underground Railroad is a literal train running underground in Colson Whitehead's new novel, which follows escaped slave Cora. It's both brilliant fiction and searing historical document.

“The Underground Railroad” is to date the most ambitiously risk-taking exploration of racial slavery ever to appear on screen, says historian Peniel Joseph – this series is not always ...

Amazon’s The Underground Railroad is a haunting look at one slave’s long road to freedom. Cora (Thuso Mbedu) escapes her awful life on a Georgia plantation by riding a literal Underground ...

With "The Underground Railroad" Barry Jenkins transforms Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a robust dialogue understood through multiple senses. The script is already potent ...

You might be wondering whether “The Underground Railroad,” being set in the antebellum South, is based on a true story. The answer is a definite no.

It’s hard to make your way through the Underground Railroad. And when you finally do — after days, weeks, months submerged in its acrid darkness, soundless and shattered, with only bouts of ...

Barry Jenkins and ‘Underground Railroad’ Stars on Significance of Show’s Literal, ‘Fantastical’ Railroad “As a child, when I first heard the words Underground Railroad, I saw Black ...