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.

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 ...

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 It's both brilliant fiction and searing historical document.

Chief Vann House in Chatsworth, Georgia Photo: “File:Kitchen living quarters, Chief Vann House Sept 2017.jpg” by Thomson200 is marked with CC0 1.0. In the 1790s, Cherokee Indian leader James ...

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.

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.