| 单词 | Underground Railroad |
| 例句 | Thus Harriet learned that the Underground Railroad that ran straight to the North was not a railroad at all. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Most times when new-free slaves come to Buxton they get helped here by a Underground Railroad conductor, but every once in the while they find us all on their own. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z For these were the first two stops on the Underground Railroad—going North, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z William Still, who was familiar with all the station stops on the Underground Railroad, supplied Harriet with money and sent her and her eleven fugitives on to Burlington, New Jersey. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Running from slavery and then coming back all those times to free everybody else—like a relay through the Underground Railroad—and Uncle Tony said she might be the new face of the twenty-dollar bill. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z When the Joneses reached Chicago, they befriended a group of abolitionists, black and white, working together as “conductors,” assisting slaves to freedom on the hidden tracks of the Underground Railroad. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She said, “A friend with friends,” the password on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in this office, upstairs in Lebanon Seminary, that she learned the extent of the network of stops on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z ZIP was supposed to stand for Zoned for Individual Progress, but all the kids called it the Underground Railroad because it was the last stop you made before you dropped out of high school. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This man was an agent of the Underground Railroad who lived in Cambridge, Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This firsthand information about the Underground Railroad, by a woman who had served as one of its conductors, thrilled that first audience before whom she spoke. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1872 he published this record in book form and called it The Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is precedent, however. Theseus had the help of Ariadne. Harriet Tubman, daughter of Hermes, used many mortals on her Underground Railroad for just this reason.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z All of them had followed the Underground Railroad route under Harriet’s direction though she did not go with them all the way to Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When the search for him had ended, the Boston Vigilance Committee sent him on to Canada via the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed no less than a rebel version of the Underground Railroad that transported runaway slaves north to freedom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As she sipped the buttered tea, she would sometimes tell about the Underground Railroad, and that first trip she made to Canada, and how all of them were ragged, hungry, dirty, cold and afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z You still got any dealings with them Underground Railroad folks?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She herself, by accident, or intuition, or the grace of God, had come all the way from Dorchester County on the Underground Railroad —and on her own two feet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Harriet laughed at her, and told her this was easy, just sitting around like this, that the Underground Railroad wasn’t any train ride. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I admired Harriet Tubman more than anyone else I read about—her courage, the pistol she wore, the fact that she never lost a passenger on the Underground Railroad. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I had the thought, ‘What if the Underground Railroad were a real train?’” he said. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He and his family were active in the abolitionist movement, their home a stop on the Underground Railroad. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In fiction, a medal was awarded to Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” and in nonfiction, Matthew Desmond's “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” was honored. American Library Assn.'s 2017 award winners include 'March: Book Three' by Rep. John Lewis 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Not long ago, I read that some enslaved Black people who managed to escape plantation life headed into the treacherous swamps of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida instead of fleeing north on the Underground Railroad. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Was it a refuge for accused witches or a stop on the Underground Railroad? Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But in his new novel, Mr. Whitehead grabs onto the most richly metaphoric conveyance of all: the Underground Railroad. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Shows such as "The Underground Railroad" don't shy away from the savagery but, in large part, what occurs onscreen highlights the tragedy these people endured instead of retraumatizing their descendants. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Looking at "The Underground Railroad," I can see how and why Jenkins' vision is so important in this moment. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Comprising six canvases, the murals depict events like the uprising on the slave ship La Amistad, scenes from the Underground Railroad and the founding of the college. ArtsBeat: Historic African American Murals to Be Restored 2011-02-22T22:15:07Z In a year plagued by racial tensions, Colson Whitehead took the National Book Award for fiction for his novel "The Underground Railroad," a visceral and creative imagining of a female slave's escape from slavery. Colson Whitehead wins for fiction at the National Book Awards 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The figure of the abolitionist was dismantled and taken from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The exhibition also includes a focused homage to Ms. Tubman, the fearless Underground Railroad “conductor,” organized with the guest curator Lowery Stokes Sims. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Harriet Tubman’s shawl and hymnal Tubman, a former slave who escaped to freedom, helped others do so through the Underground Railroad in the 1800s. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I read “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead, and am amazed at how it keeps popping back up in my thoughts. Be grateful for what was good: One dozen musicians share the art they loved the most in 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The conceit of Whitehead’s novel is oddly whimsical: He imagines that the Underground Railroad, the system of safe houses and clandestine routes used to smuggle slaves north, was, in fact, an actual railroad built underground. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The second level displays short videos on the rough stone walls in which costumed actors talk about Quakers, slavery and the risks associated with trying to escape on the Underground Railroad. Historic barn tells the story of the Underground Railroad in Maryland 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Participants can see firsthand how gentrification has shaped the borough, and trace some of the routes of the Underground Railroad. Around Town for Sep. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z 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 endure. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Just as we don’t know what the Underground Railroad looked like, we struggle and fail to imagine slain children as the adults they should have become. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z He was also a conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped slaves to freedom. For Henry Louis Gates Jr., a lifelong interest in family history in 'Finding Your Roots' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Interior Department designated the ruins at Leinster Bay one of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom historic sites, finally shining a light on the brutal enslavement that flourished here for centuries. In the U.S. Virgin Islands, returning to a changed but resilient St. John 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z She had no idea how wickedly funny he could be until the night they went out with mutual friends, and he told the bizarre story of the Underground Railroad game. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The author of “The Underground Railroad” writes a restrained, reality-grounded novel involving abuse and perversion at a 1960s reformatory. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z He is, however, secretly a part of the Underground Railroad, and hides escapees in his church, offers counsel for their northward escape, and recommends them to trusted associates along the way. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z "The Underground Railroad" begins, in fact, with musical celebration, a great light before darkness falls upon these people about whom we care proufoundly. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z There it is, “Underground’s” big challenge: getting people like my mother-in-law, the average television consumer, to watch a series about slavery, one in which the perilous Underground Railroad plays a central role. The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “It was important for us because it was so important to the Underground Railroad to integrate that kind of hope.” What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Fleeing via the Underground Railroad, she passes through the varieties of slave experience in America. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The literalization of the Underground Railroad is not the only dreamlike touch in the novel. Review: ‘Underground Railroad’ Lays Bare Horrors of Slavery and Its Toxic Legacy 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Or while shooting “The Underground Railroad”? Keep recreating The Stare in full knowledge of its political and cultural baggage? Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z He has written numerous travel stories on black culture and history for The New York Times, from the Underground Railroad to rice plantations in South Carolina. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Colson Whitehead’s new novel, “The Underground Railroad,” imagines a black slave escaping her terrible circumstances — via an actual railroad — that brings her to various points north and different visions of America. Fall literary preview: 6 terrific L.A. events 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “But to say there was no Underground Railroad is not correct.” Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Tubman spent the next decade of her life rescuing family and friends in what is now known as the Underground Railroad. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Shortly after returning to the farm, Tubman set out on her own, guided through the night by the North Star and well-worn paths of the Underground Railroad up into Pennsylvania, where slavery was illegal. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s hard to make your way through the Underground Railroad. Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z The actress Aisha Hinds dominates almost every frame of Wednesday night’s episode of “Underground,” the WGN America drama about the Underground Railroad. Aisha Hinds on Playing Harriet Tubman in a Remarkable ‘Underground’ Episode 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad Game” is not interested in providing that kind of salve; it would like to shift its audience’s thinking. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dear Amy: I couldn't believe the letter from "Making Change," the poor little snowflake who didn't like an "Underground Railroad" game she played in gym class years ago. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man hopes Tinder will ignite a spark 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z She cites artists such as Renee Stout and Martha Jackson Jarvis as inspirations, though she is also inspired by historians of black culture, the lives of enslaved people and the Underground Railroad. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Harris got an idea: She wanted to retrace Tubman’s footsteps along the Underground Railroad, traveling by foot from Cambridge, Md., to Kennett Square, Pa. — totaling roughly 116 miles. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It is surprising that there is no reference to the relationship between the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Act and the importance of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” will be an adaptation of the acclaimed Colson Whitehead novel of the same title, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for fiction. Barry Jenkins’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ in the Works at Amazon 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Harriet Tubman sang its promise of deliverance from oppression on the Underground Railroad, and Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson popularized it across a segregated country. Review: ‘The Ordering of Moses’ Shines at Riverside Church 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z He was about to start another book with another “existential black dude narrator,” as he put it, but the Underground Railroad idea kept coming to mind. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z He followed those novels with “The Underground Railroad,” about a young enslaved woman who escapes from a Georgia plantation, which injected a slightly steampunk, sci-fi aesthetic into an intricately researched historical narrative. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Whitehead’s new novel, impossibly overhyped because of the success of “The Underground Railroad,” is in many ways a continuation of his reassessment of African American history. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z There’s a touch of Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad” here, both in the story’s propulsive movement and its touches of surrealism. Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z She and a fellow slave make a daring escape from the plantation via the Underground Railroad, which, in Whitehead's telling, is literally a series of below-ground tunnels. Oprah Winfrey picks Colson Whitehead's latest, 'The Undergound Railroad,' for her book club 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad, he argues, wasn’t just a noble humanitarian enterprise, but a movement that significantly fanned the flames of sectional conflict and helped set off the war itself. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The purpose of the Underground Railroad during those years was to deliver slaves to locations in the North where they would be safe from bounty hunters. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The Underground Railroad perfectly balances the realism of its subject with fabulist touches that render it freshly illuminating. To Understand America, You Have to Ride the Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z But like Colson Whitehead’s “Underground Railroad,” the story’s bracing realism is periodically overcome by the mist of fantasy. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” is in part an attempt to contextualize modern racial strife with a vivid new origin story. The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z In a sense, “The Underground Railroad” is Whitehead’s own attempt at getting things right, not by telling us what we already know but by vindicating the powers of fiction to interpret the world. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “Underground” was canceled too soon, but its two seasons blend a historical drama about the Underground Railroad with some modern flourishes, including a pop score. Need a New Crime Drama? Visit This Colorful Nail Salon 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The Underground Railroad was a secret network of people and places that led to freedom in the North. Historic barn tells the story of the Underground Railroad in Maryland 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z What’s clear from all these locations is Pittsburgh’s significance in the history of the Underground Railroad. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In this haunting novel, Mr. Whitehead turns the Underground Railroad from a metaphor into an actual train that ferries fugitives north. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Australian actor Joel Edgerton, who plays the bounty hunter pursuing and tormenting Cora, said it’s important to remember that “we’re not that far away from what you’re seeing in ‘The Underground Railroad.’” Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z When fans of “The Underground Railroad” first heard of Jenkins’s plans to adapt, many readers’ imaginations understandably went to the story’s most speculative, magical realist elements. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “It’s much more, but the entertainment value alone should ensure it the same kind of popular success that greeted his last two novels, ‘The Underground Railroad’ and ‘The Nickel Boys.’ 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z While there is no recorded proof that these areas were officially part of the Underground Railroad, the possibility exists. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Sure, many of us probably learned the basics: Pittsburgh’s involvement in the Underground Railroad helped approximately 100,000 slaves escape. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad was real, and Foner will help ordinary people understand that in a way that doesn’t rely on fiction or quilt stories, but on actual documents and records.” Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Shattuck worked with Sandra Harmel, a local historian, and slowly, over the course of year, began to unearth locations that were once recorded or mentioned as having been part of the Underground Railroad. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z After saying that he still had a memento from “Underground Railroad Game,” to cheers, he got serious. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Catch up on the impressive Underground Railroad drama “Underground,” with a Season 1 marathon. What You Should Watch This Fourth of July Weekend 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The success of “The Underground Railroad” or the “Wolf Hall” trilogy, on the page as well as in the marketplace, may be inspiring some novelists who previously dismissed historical fiction as a form. For Literary Novelists the Past Is Pressing 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z If anything, Jenkins’s version of “The Underground Railroad” is most startling for its implacable realism. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s not easy to see the Underground Railroad in Iowa today. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z “The issue is not only the destruction of a landmark and the desecration of a site on the Underground Railroad,” he said. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z Once the site is ready for visitors, Pradines said, it will be added to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a 125-mile drive that includes more than 30 sites related to Tubman’s life and legacy. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The Pulitzer committee praised “The Underground Railroad” as “a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America.” Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'The Underground Railroad' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” reanimates the slave narrative, disrupts our settled sense of the past and stretches the ligaments of history right into our own era. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z I am referring both to the story line of “The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead and the experience of reading it. Colson Whitehead's 'The Underground Railroad' is timely, necessary and shattering 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Hallie Quinn Brown was the daughter of former slaves whose Ohio home was a stop on the Underground Railroad escape route for slaves. Who helped women get the vote? Meet three important suffragists. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad Game,” presented at Ars Nova, was an audacious exploration of slavery in the guise of a misguided middle school history lesson. Which Off Broadway Shows Did Obie Awards Like Best? ‘Oslo’ and ‘Underground Railroad Game’ Share Top Honors 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Whitehead’s time-hopping novel imagines the Underground Railroad as a literal mode of transportation. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Many layers of artifice are at work in “Underground Railroad Game,” and no sooner do we find our footing on one of them than it shifts to another. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The house in New Charlestown was calling me to research its past and solve its Underground Railroad secret. Novelists Sara Gruen and Sarah McCoy in conversation: “I study history through a kind of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ looking-glass” 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z When Amazon was filming “The Underground Railroad,” a series about enslaved workers fleeing a cotton plantation, the therapist Kim Whyte was on set for much of the shoot. A New Must-Have for TV and Movie Shoots: Therapists 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Our reviewer called this, Whitehead’s first novel since he won Pulitzer Prizes for “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” “a rich, wild book.” 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “Heaven’s Door” draws inspiration from a traditional song called “Follow the Drinking Gourd,” which is said to have functioned as coded instructions for slaves seeking to escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad. What’s a Kanye West song doing in a TV show about slavery? 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z A former Underground Railroad conductor, he is looked down upon by some for peddling fertilizer he obtains by picking up after dogs, but he carries himself with the ferocious dignity of a freedom fighter. 'Gem of the Ocean' at South Coast Rep: August Wilson provides ritual healing in a devastating revival 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z “I read the book and the script, and both just blew my mind,” says Aaron Pierre, who plays Caesar, the enslaved man who leads Cora from a Georgia plantation to the Underground Railroad. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z He became a lecturer on the anti-slavery circuit; he aided other slaves in the Underground Railroad. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z “The Nickel Boys” feels like a smaller novel than “The Underground Railroad,” but it’s ultimately a tougher one, even a meaner one. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Parks trained her students in civil rights advocacy, Underground Railroad history and other subjects. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Written by Colson Whitehead before he won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for “The Underground Railroad,” this 2011 book is literary, gory and, according to our reviewer, “for all its ludic violence, strangely tender.” Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Well, the last novel I read was Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad.” Transcript: President Obama on What Books Mean to Him 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z As I sat in Bethesda Meeting, my Oberlin visit got me thinking about how active Quakers were in the abolitionist movement, and how many of them worked on the Underground Railroad. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z It happens to be the birthplace of President Herbert Hoover, as well as a well-documented stop on the Underground Railroad. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z When I learned about the Underground Railroad as a child, I always wondered about the last steps to freedom. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Two building that could be part of the Underground Railroad are slated for demolition by the NYC Economic Development Corporation. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But with my last novel, “The Underground Railroad,” and “The Nickel Boys,” the narrator showed up immediately. Colson Whitehead on Human Cruelty 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z These novels turn the reader’s attention outward, illuminating not just the nature of the Underground Railroad and of migration pathways, respectively, but of the world that necessitated and produced them. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z They speak with the slow, carefully cadenced friendliness you associate with instructors of young students, as they tell us that the Underground Railroad “was the silver lining to the dark cloud that was slavery.” Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” took Whitehead 16 years to write. Colson Whitehead wins the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 'The Underground Railroad' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Rounding out the acquisition are portraits of abolitionists and photographs related to the Underground Railroad, with special attention to the women — both Black and white — who worked to raise money for the operation. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The famed Underground Railroad “conductor” was introduced in the first season’s exhilarating final scene. Review | Want to know what revolution looks like? Watch ‘Underground.’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The property has a forested area, the historic walkway, where visitors can experience what it must have been like to travel along the Underground Railroad. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z His new novel, “The Underground Railroad,” is as different as can be from the zombie book. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z I definitely think it’s shaped how I think about writing pieces of theater and making them sometimes very explicitly, like in “Underground Railroad Game,” about dolls and about how we played. They Played With Dolls. Did That Make Them Playwrights? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z St. David’s is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad, and Eastville was later known to be a safe harbor for people escaping Jim Crow laws in the South. Artists Rally to Preserve Black History in Sag Harbor 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z His father was a farmer and a lay preacher in southern Indiana who sheltered escaped slaves as part of the Underground Railroad. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z In August, I spoke to Jenkins while he was working on editing “The Underground Railroad.” The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Historians say it was part of the Underground Railroad; a tunnel in the basement was a coal shed where escaped slaves hid. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z RELATED: What William Jackson Harper wants viewers to take away from "Underground Railroad" "Love Life" resets the rom-com by presenting a Black man's perspective on what it's like "out there" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Sitting on 17 acres, the center will be part of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, a 125-mile self-guided driving tour that wends through 36 significant sites along the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Freedom” takes a compelling chapter in American history — the flight of slaves from Southern bondage to Canada via the Underground Railroad — and flattens its drama. Review: ‘Freedom’ Stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as a Slave Fleeing to Canada 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad Game” also ties the sins of America's past squarely to the present day. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Many more slaves actually attempted escape without the aid of the Underground Railroad, at least initially. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z At the park I told Dr. Ellis that I still wasn’t sure why Pittsburgh played such an important role in the Underground Railroad. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Finally out in paperback on Jan. 30, Whitehead’s 2016 novel of the pre-Civil War American South, “The Underground Railroad,” won a coveted literary doubleheader: the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for February 2018 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Here, too, are powerful reminders of the pivotal role First African Baptist played as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Catch up on Season 1 of this Underground Railroad thriller. What’s on TV Saturday 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z In his Pulitzer-winning “The Underground Railroad,” Whitehead infused a sad era of our nation’s history with science fiction and magical realism to remind us that the shadow of slavery still hovers over us. Review | The 10 books to read in July 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Which is why it can be surprising to learn about Iowa’s history with the Underground Railroad in the years leading up to the Civil War. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z After all, this is a tour of the Underground Railroad. On a New York Underground Railroad Tour, Lessons in Resistance 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In the fall, the surreal and subversive “Underground Railroad Game” opened to rapturous reviews off-Broadway. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Incredibly, despite all the biographies and monuments, operas and museum exhibitions and commemorative stamps, “Harriet” is the first feature film to focus solely on the Underground Railroad’s most famous conductor. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z As patent fictions, they register precisely what we don’t know about the Underground Railroad, which relied on secrecy and was largely undocumented. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z It is unclear when “The Underground Railroad” would debut on Amazon or how many episodes it would include. Barry Jenkins’s ‘The Underground Railroad’ in the Works at Amazon 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Hiram, on the lam or on missions for the Underground Railroad, is captured more than once. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In just the past year and a half, you've seen her in "The Undoing," "Tell Me Your Secrets," "The Underground Railroad" and of course, "American Horror Story." "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z ABDUL-JABBAR: Some of the people involved that you would never, ever be considered to be heroes of the Underground Railroad. Q&A: Abdul-Jabbar talks new documentary, MLK, social justice 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In one scene, a character compares the guiding star in the Christmas story with the stars that guide slaves on the Underground Railroad. Review | ‘A Civil War Christmas’ at 1st Stage is overstuffed, feel-good holiday fare 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The Story of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and other anti-slavery activists are saluted in this show for ages 10 and up. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Jan. 21-28: Orson Bean, 'Pirates of Penzance' and more 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Until now, the series was set in Gilead, Iowa, a fictional rural village that was once a stop on the Underground Railroad, when Ulysses S. Grant called Iowa the “shining star” of Midwestern abolitionism. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z But it was only when they went to a talk about the Underground Railroad, at Independence National Historical Park, that they found in the speaker’s awkwardness something they could latch onto. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z But while there is romance in “The Underground Railroad,” the story centers on much darker terrain. The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z As in Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” in which there was a literal underground railroad, there is a tear here in the fabric of reality. With ‘The Water Dancer,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes His Fiction Debut 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The “Where” books include interesting locations such as Mount Everest, and the ●“What” books include subjects such as the Underground Railroad. Summer kid book suggestions from author Kate DiCamillo and others 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z By contrast, "The Underground Railroad" appears in an age replete with representations of enslavement. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z In the first exhibit room, I read about the USS Constellation, which liberated 4,000 captives from slave ships in Africa, and the Underground Railroad, which laced through Howard County along present-day Route 1. A history spree in Ellicott City, Md. In "The Underground Railroad" he smolders as Royal, a free Black man who rescues an enslaved woman, Cora, from a heartless bounty hunter who never stops chasing her. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z “Everybody in Ohio who has a potato cellar thinks it was an Underground Railroad site,” said Paul Finkelman, a professor at Albany Law School who is writing a book on fugitive slave laws. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In this fantastical historical novel, the Underground Railroad used by escaping slaves is an actual system of subterranean tracks and trains. 10 novels we’re looking forward to this summer and fall 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The character and her ability to remember and interpret a secret language of signs is based on Bouie’s reading of accounts of the Underground Railroad and other histories of the life of enslaved people. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The director, who will also write and direct a TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, praised Baldwin in a statement released Monday. Barry Jenkins' Moonlight follow-up will be James Baldwin adaptation 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The actual number of people involved in the Underground Railroad was tiny. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He is the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction — “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” for which he won in April. Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Publisher Doubleday released "The Underground Railroad" on Tuesday after originally scheduling it for September. AP Newsbreak: Winfrey picks Whitehead novel for book club 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “We just happened to set it against the Underground Railroad.” A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The film also shows the tension and support between runaway slaves and free black people through Harriet’s relationships with Still and other allies she meets through the Underground Railroad network. We all know Harriet Tubman was a hero. The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see her humanity. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The Sandy Ground Historical Society will visit the Staten Island Children’s Museum to discuss the area’s rich legacy and its importance as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:43:37Z Encountering a single roadside marker, the only sign of what is today the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, left me wondering how in this vast, sparsely developed place, Tubman’s story would be told. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Historians concentrated more on interracial collaborations before the Civil War, like the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z This month, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra gave the first performances of “Troubled Water,” a concerto for trombone that movingly invokes the fears and the faiths of freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad Game” exposes the blistered nerve of America’s cruelest legacy. What you should be seeing in D.C. theater this week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z If you choose to watch “The Underground Railroad,” whose roughly 10 hours arrive Friday on Amazon Prime Video, yes, you will see atrocities. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z And then there’s the number of enslaved people she rescued through the Underground Railroad, which was reported as 300 in her 1869 biography, but was more likely around 70. Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The story of Buxton’s Underground Railroad freedom seekers is remembered every year at “Homecoming” on Labour Day weekend in September. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “Underground Railroad” combined historical detail from the 19th century and a unique twist: Whitehead imagined the network for bringing runaway slaves North to their freedom as a literal railroad. An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Johnston started his Underground Railroad walk on Dec. 24, 2019, walking 20 miles overnight from Poplar Neck, Md., to Denton, Md., in honor of Tubman’s 1854 Christmas Day rescue of her brothers. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Even though she was the only "conductor" on rescue missions, she depended on a few houses connected with the Underground Railroad for shelter. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z “Underground,” a stylish period thriller about the Underground Railroad, was what first drew Peele, an executive producer of “Lovecraft Country,” to Green. Living While Black in ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z As a child, he was saturated with legends of the Underground Railroad, which he regards as a beneficial example of organized crime since the laws broken condoned slavery. Tommy Guns and Other Crime World Curiosities 2010-11-19T07:15:00Z Detroit, whose code name was “Midnight” on the Underground Railroad, was a pivotal location on the network. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Ohio was also a crucial state in the Underground Railroad, the secret network that led to the freedom of tens of thousands of slaves in the 19th century. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The answer is nothing compares, nothing so dire and real as the act of escaping slavery via the Underground Railroad in the 19th-century South. WGN’s thrilling escaped-slave drama ‘Underground’ is overdue — and right on time 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z It addresses a current reality: the complicated, arduous journeys that migrants take around the globe, trying, like those who travelled on the Underground Railroad, to escape death and persecution and move toward liberty and prosperity. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The basement was actually used during the Underground Railroad, one of the many pockets of resistance to slavery. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Chief among them is Gay’s Record of Fugitives, which Mr. Pinsker called “perhaps the most extraordinary” documentary discovery concerning the Underground Railroad in the past decade. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Jenkins is well aware that “The Underground Railroad” arrives at a time when the ethics of representing Black trauma on screen are especially fraught. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In my own neighborhood in Cincinnati, local historians have used hitherto unknown primary materials to document Underground Railroad routes. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In his introduction, Mr. Foner credits Fergus Bordewich writing the most recent general history of the Underground Railroad, which traced "the emergence of local groups in the North that assisted runaway slaves." Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In “The Underground Railroad,” he talks about racial progress, and its limits, in a more direct, even prophetic way. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It's lovely that there is new research on this, but stops on the Underground Railroad are threatened in New York. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z As unflinching as “Underground Railroad” is, the show is ultimately less about the torture of slavery and more about the quest for freedom in the face of endless obstacles. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Whitehead talked about the origin of "The Underground Railroad" on CBS. Oprah Winfrey picks Colson Whitehead's latest, 'The Undergound Railroad,' for her book club 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z On one of these visits, he stumbled upon a map of eastern Iowa’s Underground Railroad. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z More recently, preservationists have sought to highlight the achievements of African Americans with interactive maps exploring landmarks related to Black history and the Underground Railroad. City Approves Landmarks Honoring Chinese Americans and Native Americans 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “I pass through the world, but I leave no trace,” Seth says, echoing a line in Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” set decades earlier, in the American South. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z I have my copy of "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead to read this weekend. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z It produces experimental plays, like the recent “Small Mouth Sounds” and “Underground Railroad Game,” and musicals, like “Great Comet” and the forthcoming “KPOP,” opening this fall. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Children, who will be admitted free, will learn about Lewis Tappan, who helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society, and Charles Bennett Ray, a black activist who worked with the Underground Railroad. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z And the city of Oberlin was a stop on the Underground Railroad that aided escaped slaves. Dunham tweets about alma mater's racism troubles 2013-03-05T19:55:09Z In his latest novel, the “Underground Railroad” writer fictionalized the story of a Florida school where dozens of black boys were tortured and buried in a secret graveyard. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” is also about the myriad ways in which black history has too often been stolen by white narrators. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Indiana’s Conner Prairie, for example, offers a nighttime event enabling participants to play the role of escaped slaves traveling through the state’s Underground Railroad. At Hancock Shaker Village, Concerts, a Farm-to-Table Menu and Goat Yoga 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The result is “The Underground Railroad,” an unflinching portrayal of Cora, an enslaved woman who escapes a Georgia plantation and its horrors only to be pursued by an unrelenting bounty hunter. Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z "The Underground Railroad" is a massive accomplishment and a weighty one, and not to be rushed. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z If you read “The Underground Railroad,” Colson Whitehead’s phenomenal novel about a runaway slave, you remember that disorienting moment when a subterranean locomotive rolls into view. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z And we begin to notice, as readers, slight departures from historical fact, places where “The Underground Railroad” becomes something much more interesting than a historical novel. In Colson Whitehead’s Latest, the Underground Railroad Is More Than a Metaphor 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z In “The Underground Railroad,” the physical details of the railroad are surreal in their mundanity. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The show is set largely on a Georgia plantation and covers the expansion of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Brooklyn’ and Olympic Highlights 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z While I'm not a historian and I don't know the reasoning, I find it very fishy for historians to deny that there ever was an Underground Railroad. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z They used a secret network of people and places called the Underground Railroad. A new stop for Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z She began chronicling her efforts to swiftly finish her novel, tentatively titled “The Princess of the Underground Railroad,” on a blog with a name that says it all: Oprahby2011.com. Who Will Be Oprah?s Last Star? 2010-11-15T19:07:00Z With all the accolades heaped on “The Underground Railroad,” expectations for “The Nickel Boys” will be stratospheric. Colson Whitehead’s Next Novel Tackles Life Under Jim Crow 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z He was also president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for six years. Lonnie Bunch’s Smithsonian promotion leaves big shoes to fill at the African American Museum 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z So were any documentaries about the Underground Railroad, or Frederick Douglass, the Amistad, or any other prominent figures or historical chapters about the pre-Civil War South that one can think of. The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Later, the Notch served as an important link on the Underground Railroad, providing safe passage for escaped slaves to Canada. Top 10 national and state parks in New England, USA 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z In August, she selected Colson Whitehead's novel "The Underground Railroad," which quickly shot up bestseller lists. Oprah ramps up 2016 book club with second pick in two months: 'Love Warrior' by Glennon Doyle Melton 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee is an owner of 227 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, a house adjacent to the park that historians now believe was part of the Underground Railroad. A Monument Honoring Brooklyn Abolitionists Stalls Under Scrutiny 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Another mural features a scene from the Underground Railroad, the route by which enslaved people escaped to freedom. Murals that send a message: For Black History Month, a look at the activist art of Hale Woodruff 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Built by slaves in 1859, it was once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Secrets of Savannah's Historic District 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z The underground network of sympathisers that exists to get mutants over the border to Mexico recalls the historical Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape to free states and Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries. Losing the X Factor: is it time for the X-Men universe to stop expanding? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z These days Toller’s church, once a stop on the Underground Railroad and a refuge for escaped slaves, is so steeped in history that it’s more of a souvenir shop than a spiritual sanctuary. ‘First Reformed’ Review: Light on the Dark Night of a Soul 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z You can’t help but wonder what the Johnsons, 19th-century Quaker abolitionists whose property served as that Underground Railroad stop, would make of the vibrant but low-income African-American neighborhood that surrounds their house today. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z “Succession,” “Ted Lasso,” “The Underground Railroad,” “WandaVision” and “The White Lotus.” From Cooper to Spielberg, stars turn out for AFI Awards 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z That book, called simply “The Underground Railroad,” follows a 15-year-old slave named Cora as she escapes north via a literal network of underground tracks and trains. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z For "Underground Railroad" I had to do some reading, just to try to understand and get a more visceral feel for what the story is dealing with. "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z But to walk the streets of Pittsburgh is to see that the meaningful role it played in the Underground Railroad is hiding in plain sight. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Foner's book I'm sure is an excellent addition to the history of the Underground Railroad. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A slave and his family escape from Virginia and head to Canada via the Underground Railroad in a journey that parallels his great-grandfather's own struggle to survive a century earlier. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Swing low, sweet chariot /comin’ for to carry me home, a code song about the Underground Railroad. Lonnae O’Neal: ‘Deep River’ for these deeply troubled times 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z There are and will be people writing off "The Underground Railroad" despite all its critical praise, accusing it of selling Black pain as entertainment. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s much more, but the entertainment value alone should ensure it the same kind of popular success that greeted his last two novels, “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.” In Colson Whitehead’s New Novel, a Crime Grows in Harlem 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Works include the haunting, but hopeful images from Jeanine Michna-Bales’s photographic essay “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad.” Art Created 100 Years Apart, Linked by Trauma, Offers Solace 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Naturally, that’s a skill of great interest to agents working for the Underground Railroad. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In "The Underground Railroad," slavery – for all its horrors – exists in an environment nonetheless imbued with beauty. "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z In 1830, Henson fled with his wife and young children, endured hunger and exhaustion on the Underground Railroad and finally made it to Dresden. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z And it wasn’t the Underground Railroad that forced the issue, but the fugitive slaves themselves. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z I binge watched "The Good Place," and I watched "We Broke Up," and then obviously, "The Underground Railroad." "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z I was thinking how, when you’re a kid, you think the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad. 6 Questions for Colson Whitehead, Author of The Underground Railroad 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In my story, I also link to an Op-Ed article Mr. Bordewich wrote a few years ago challenging the popular notion that Underground Railroad routes were encoded in quilts. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “Small Mouth Sounds” and “Underground Railroad Game” are on national and international tours. Ars Nova Finds a New Theater in Greenwich Village 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And Monday night was the New York opening of not only “Underground Railroad Game” but also a play by Nathan Alan Davis called “Nat Turner in Jerusalem.” Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In her fictional essay the narrator finds papers tucked inside upholstery on an inherited mahogany chair, showing that an ancestor helped slaves on the Underground Railroad. Antiques: Retrospectives for Harry Bertoia’s Grids and Gongs 2013-07-11T21:43:46Z Travel guides presented a modern-day Underground Railroad to show black travelers which hotels and restaurants would serve them. Review: ‘Driving While Black’ opens road to civil rights 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z They examined the Underground Railroad, the role of black sailors in the 19th-century whaling industry and the Great Migration of blacks from the South. Fredrick L. McKissack, Children’s Book Author, Dies at 73 2013-05-09T22:41:33Z The Johnson House was a stop on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z A onetime stop on the Underground Railroad in a state that was early to emancipation, Harrisburg already had a sizable free black population at the end of the war and offered employment and educational opportunities. For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z I might be jaded, but the in-your-face climax of “Underground Railroad Game” ran in nearly the same track as the in-your-face climax of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” at Woolly Mammoth last year. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z They are a major reason that Pittsburgh had a profound role in the Underground Railroad — runaway slaves relied on the rivers to bring them to the city. Pittsburgh’s Underground Railroad, Preserved and Not 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z It barely mentions the Underground Railroad, whose conductors were both Black and white, and shortchanges the longtime abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, depicting him largely as a purveyor of the inevitable progress myth. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The British North American provinces, or Canada, were among the most storied termini of the Underground Railroad. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “They said the neighborhood wasn’t zoned for it. And I told them, ‘Listen, you have museums around here without a shred of African-American history, in a city that the Underground Railroad passed through. A Self-Taught Artist Takes His Roadside Acropolis North 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z "The Underground Railroad" is also strenuous, brutal viewing not to be undertaken casually. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The M’Clintock home, a few miles away in Waterloo, N.Y., is also part of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park — and reportedly a station on the Underground Railroad. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “That sculpture was installed on 125th Street as a way of linking the historical event of the Underground Railroad with the creative fluorescence of the Harlem Renaissance,” Abbaspour said. Illuminating Toni Morrison’s Manuscripts at Princeton 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Once she gets out of Maryland and into Delaware, her flight involves the help of white sympathizers, ones who work with the Underground Railroad and even ones who don’t. The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet” 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z She then risked her life several times to return to Maryland and lead dozens of slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Movie 'Harriet' tells a different story about U.S. slavery 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The Lyonses were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for black sailors that doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The Robinsons, devout Quakers and uncompromising abolitionists, ran a Merino sheep farm and orchard here, and joined a network of Northerners that helped form the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved African-Americans in their quest for freedom. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” is the first of Whitehead’s books to be longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. The National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad” insists that there is still no easy way to talk about the legacy of slavery. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” has been on my night stand for a while. Calvin Trillin: By the Book 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Still, he describes “The Underground Railroad,” which he began in earnest in the spring of 2014, as responding to a kind of inner pull. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Far and away the most anticipated literary novel of the year, “The Underground Railroad” marks a new triumph for Whitehead. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad routes Tubman followed were a patchy network of allies, secret passages and safe houses that began operation in the early decades of the 19th century. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z After he published his surreal epic, “The Underground Railroad,” in the summer of 2016, Colson Whitehead was set to write a crime novel set in Harlem. Colson Whitehead’s Next Novel Tackles Life Under Jim Crow 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z George Washington slept here, a lot, and decades later so did runaway slaves at a well-preserved stop on the Underground Railroad. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z The Rev. Monroe was also a station master in the Underground Railroad. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I read both “The Nickel Boys” and “The Underground Railroad” and can’t wait to read his new work. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Stahr says Seward also apparently aided runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad and sold a house to antislavery activist Harriet Tubman without ever bothering to collect the money she owed. 'Seward': a new biography of Lincoln's right-hand man 2012-09-26T22:15:06Z Instead of fabricating Paris’s seedy glamour, Bey’s photographs imagine nighttime scenes experienced by fugitive enslaved people on the Underground Railroad. Review | This photographer transcends his medium — by turning day into night and past into present 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z And her latest novel, "The Last Runaway," takes on similarly fascinating and little-known subject matter - the Quakers' role in the Underground Railroad during the mid-1800s. Review: Chevalier's latest novel disappoints 2013-01-22T19:01:05Z Jackdaw has escaped with the help of the Underground Airlines, a modern continuation of the Underground Railroad, but there are hints in his case file and elsewhere that he is not just another runaway slave. ‘Underground Airlines’ imagines a modern U.S. where slavery is still legal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The tension between politics and play is exciting — think “The Colored Museum,” “Underground Railroad Game” and “Black History Museum.” ‘Black Feminist Video Game’ Review: Pixels and Polemics 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z Another notable work that made the longlist was Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” — which already won both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Man Booker Longlist Features Arundhati Roy and Colson Whitehead 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z She literally was the passage—the Underground Railroad of transitioning. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad was a loose network of African Americans and whites who helped fugitive slaves escape to a free state or to Canada. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Colson Whitehead’s novel “The Underground Railroad” boldly reimagines a historical moment: What if, the book asks, the titular pathway to freedom for American slaves was an actual railroad that was literally underground? The National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z But it wasn’t until he released “The Underground Railroad” that he became a genuine literary phenomenon. Colson Whitehead’s Next Novel Tackles Life Under Jim Crow 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “I think it's a good thing any time people are interested in history,” says Eric Foner, a leading scholar of 19th century America, whose 2015 book, “Gateway to Freedom,” focused on the Underground Railroad. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z These days, references to the Underground Railroad course through literary and popular culture. In Florida, Solemn Shadows of the Early Underground Railroad 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Walsh gave Harris the contact information of a man from Philadelphia, Ken Johnston, who had reached out to him a few months before, also hoping to retrace Tubman’s footsteps through the Underground Railroad. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z And with a voice as magically mercurial as its plot, “The Underground Railroad” won a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize and, most important, Oprah’s blessing. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z When Barry Jenkins was growing up, in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood, he would listen to teachers talk about the Underground Railroad. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The phrase Underground Railroad first appeared around 1839 but slaves had, naturally, been trying to escape since the implementation of this horrific institution. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Stories from the Underground Railroad had long been relegated to nonfiction or the broad and simplistic brushstrokes of children's books. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In the novel’s opening chapter, Libertie sees her mother revive a man who arrives at their home sealed in a coffin, brought by a woman who works on the Underground Railroad. Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z It follows the same basic plot as the book, a work of alternate historical fiction: the Underground Railroad is a literal series of trains run by Black people spiriting enslaved people toward freedom. Filming ‘The Underground Railroad’ was grueling. But the cast grasped ‘the weight of what we were doing.’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z There is speculation that Stevens used the basement as a stop on the Underground Railroad, but there is no concrete evidence to support this. On the trail of Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania’s equal rights champion 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z This is where free blacks and slaves met with Tubman in secrecy to plot escapes along the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The other current show, “Faces of the Underground Railroad,” displays contemporary quilt squares portraying figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Her discovery made waves among historians when it was announced by state and federal officials at a news conference at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Md., on Tuesday morning. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Her family helped ignite the efforts to preserve the building, once owned by the abolitionists Harriet and Thomas Truesdell, that historians believe was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Home of Brooklyn Abolitionists Receives Landmark Status 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Amazon's new series "The Underground Railroad" represents the latter. "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Brave Berlin, a local design studio, is overseeing the creation of animated installations for the facades of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and the Contemporary Arts Center. At Some Museums, the Art Is Now on the Outside 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z "The Underground Railroad" streams on Amazon starting Friday, May 14. "The Underground Railroad" is a relentlessly tough, yet gorgeously rendered television masterpiece 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet for all the reviewer catches at this show's power to grab at the national racial malaise, don't miss that Underground Railroad Game is also an incredible piece of entertainment. Let’s Play ‘Underground Railroad Game’: A Lacerating Comedy on Race 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Tubman stole into the woods and, with the help of some members of the Underground Railroad, walked the 90 miles to Philadelphia, where slavery was illegal. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The people of the Underground Railroad were an even smaller minority. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Whitehead’s 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” is the African American writer’s inaugural work brought to the screen, the basis of an Amazon series debuting May 14. TV’s growth is a boon for ‘diverse voices’ among novelists 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Disgusted: “Making Change,” a Ph.D. candidate, was well aware of the importance of the Underground Railroad. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man hopes Tinder will ignite a spark 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z A permanent museum exhibit, featuring items like an 1897 edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and maps of Underground Railroad routes from Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee, is on the ground floor. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Last summer Ben Winters’ counterfactual noir novel, “Underground Airlines,” hit bestseller lists; then came Colson Whitehead's “The Underground Railroad,” the year's National Book Award winner for fiction. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “Sound of Freedom” depicts the real story of former Department of Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard, and his efforts to stop worldwide child sex trafficking through his Operation Underground Railroad nonprofit organization. Amazon Prime Video secures streaming rights for ‘Sound of Freedom’ 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Guiding their efforts is a dedicated pastor in South Korea with extensive contacts in the Underground Railroad for defectors, plus his own scars from years of this hazardous work. Review: In 'Beyond Utopia,' the weight of North Korean oppression on its citizenry is undeniable 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z Now, “Let Us Descend” joins a list of distinguished neo-slave narratives — stories about much more than slavery that include Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” Octavia Butler’s “Kindred” and, of course, Morrison’s “Beloved.” An enslaved woman charts a path in Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Let Us Descend’ 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Ten Americans involved in the Underground Railroad — the resistance movement that helped slaves escape the South — will appear on stamps next year. Novelist Saul Bellow, Underground Railroad, space images featured on new U.S. stamps 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Phone and email messages left with Operation Underground Railroad and Ballard’s representatives were not immediately returned Monday. Lawsuit alleges famous child-trafficking opponent sexually abused women who posed as his wife 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z She was a young girl when abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a group that was running from slave catchers to a station of the Underground Railroad in Syracuse, New York. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z A vault on the site was used as a hiding place for people escaping slavery via the Underground Railroad. America’s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The organization inspired a film popular with conservative moviegoers last summer, “Sound of Freedom,” even as Ballard was ousted from Operation Underground Railroad amid reports of sexual misconduct. Race to replace Mitt Romney heats up as Republican Utah House speaker readies to enter 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Americans had been helping enslaved people escape since the late 1700s, and by the early 1800s, the secret group of individuals and places that many fugitives relied on became known as the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Advocates in the fight against child sex trafficking, by contrast, take issue with the film for canonizing the controversial operations of Ballard and his former organization, Operation Underground Railroad. 'I'm not going to make $1': 'Sound of Freedom' director breaks his silence 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z William Whipper was born in Pennsylvania to a Black slave and her white owner; he inherited his white father’s lumber business and became a noted entrepreneur who helped finance the Underground Railroad. Column: Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery's horrors 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Operation Underground Railroad and Timothy Ballard have come under criticism for different issues in the past. Sound of Freedom: An unlikely - and controversial - summer movie hit 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z You’re Colson Whitehead, and you’ve just pocketed a couple of Pulitzers for harrowing novels — “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys” — that wrung beauty from the abyss of America’s racist past. Another first from shape-shifting Colson Whitehead: A crime-novel sequel 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Once they were on their journey, they looked for safe resting places that they had heard might be along the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z I decided I would continue by making work about the Underground Railroad. Dawoud Bey wants to deterritorialize art: 'When I’m in these spaces, it opens up space for the Black community' 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Quindaro was a short-lived town and a station on the Underground Railroad that helped enslaved people escape to Canada. Payback? Project funds axed after Kansas lawmaker defies governor on abortion, trans rights 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The moon is “the white beacon that so often agitated the slave with a mind to run,” as Colson Whitehead writes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Underground Railroad.” With a Black Californian headed to the moon, many see cosmic justice for a whole race 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z When I go to New York City, how do we hold a recognition of this place both as a center of the Underground Railroad and as a place that perpetuated the slave trade? ‘Above Ground’ author Clint Smith, in Seattle April 11, is a poet at heart 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z After traveling along the Underground Railroad for 27 hours by wagon, train, and boat, Brown was delivered safely to agents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z By the time I got to making this work about the Underground Railroad and Black fugitivity, I’d become very comfortable with where the two sides, the top and bottom, are of a landscape photograph. Dawoud Bey wants to deterritorialize art: 'When I’m in these spaces, it opens up space for the Black community' 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z As he recognized Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Biden noted that he is the only writer to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for back-to-back works, “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys.” Biden Brings the Stars to the White House 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The result of the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was widespread opposition in the North, riots and revolts, the doubling down by abolitionists, the expansion of the Underground Railroad and the act’s eventual repeal. Opinion | Ron DeSantis is taking a page from the Fugitive Slave Act playbook 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z They also show white Vermonters protesting slavery and helping people escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In Vermont, a School and Artist Fight Over Murals of Slavery 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z By chance he learned that he lived on a route along the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Her father also told her about the Underground Railroad. Near Tubman’s birthplace: ‘We found Africa on Maryland’s Eastern Shore’ 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z William Still was a stationmaster for the Underground Railroad, and Harper, inspired by his work with fugitives, turned to writing poetry for abolitionist newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass’ Paper and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Officials are preparing to break ground on a $5 billion project that includes a new tunnel named for the abolitionist and Underground Railroad booster Frederick Douglass, which they hope will go into service by 2032. Biden to promote Baltimore spending as Republicans try to force cuts 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z “I read a lot of novels to see how they tell the story. It’s not like you read Colson Whitehead’s ‘Underground Railroad’ and he’s starting off with a description of how the railroad works. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass escaped slavery from Maryland in 1838 and became a well-known abolitionist, writer, speaker, and supporter of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z “He was an Underground Railroad agent himself,” she said. Near Tubman’s birthplace: ‘We found Africa on Maryland’s Eastern Shore’ 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z She sold poems while giving speeches and sent money to William Still to help fund the Underground Railroad. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z After “The Underground Railroad,” Whyte also helped the Amazon production of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Core said. With pandemic and streaming boom, mental health support is coming to some film sets 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Bird said Grant’s home territory was “a hotbed of the Underground Railroad” when the future Union general and 18th U.S. president was young. Ulysses S. Grant, president and general, gets a day in Ohio 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Another Underground Railroad operator was William Still, a free Black business owner and abolitionist movement leader. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z A secret society tied to the Underground Railroad is fighting to save its New York headquarters. Trump’s Culpability 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z She has helped raise money for Operation Underground Railroad, which performs stings against suspected traffickers in other countries. Elon Musk uses QAnon tactic in criticizing former Twitter safety chief 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Fragile paperwork memorializing an ancestor’s heroic role in the Underground Railroad hangs framed on a wall behind a gleaming banister. Review | Admiring the beauty — and beautiful politics — of the Black family home 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z In this series, Bey photographed sites in Ohio that are thought to be on the Underground Railroad. What to see in Seattle Art Museum’s Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems photo exhibit 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s one of the clearest accounts of people involved with the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z They also worked with William Still on managing the Philadelphia hub of the Underground Railroad. Family heirlooms retrace the history of Black James Forten 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Fager said she believes that leaving medicine and other items out could have also been connected with the Underground Railroad, because the cemetery served as a stop on it. Perspective | Leaving toys on graves was once seen as a strange D.C. cemetery custom 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z I was interested in the myths of the Underground Railroad. Artist Sanford Biggers on conjuring a deity and that time he met Prince 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Her left arm reaches back, her wrist tilted just so, as if to warn her “passengers” on the Underground Railroad not to move just yet. A statue of legendary spy Harriet Tubman now stands at the CIA 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad was a social movement that started when ordinary people joined together to make a change in society. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Her family was trapped in the Underground Railroad since slavery. 'Make love, skinny dip and drink expensive champagne': Inside Niecy Nash-Betts' second act 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Davis holds the center, and “The Underground Railroad” star Mbedu easily meets her. ‘The Woman King’ review: A violently epic war dance, starring Viola Davis 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z I read that your quilt pieces were inspired, in part, by the idea that quilts may have served as directional markers on the Underground Railroad during the era of slavery. Artist Sanford Biggers on conjuring a deity and that time he met Prince 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Since 2018, the CIA has taken some employees on “Leadership Ethos Rides” retracing the path of Tubman’s Underground Railroad missions along the Eastern Shore. A statue of legendary spy Harriet Tubman now stands at the CIA 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad was not underground, and it wasn’t an actual train. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z “To me, Wright is really one of the founders of the Underground Railroad,” said Eric Foner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.” In a storied building, the tale about the abolitionist is rarely told 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z In 2019, Coates published his first novel, The Water Dancer, a work of historical fiction about a slave who helps in the Underground Railroad. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z She returned to the South more than a dozen times to lead other enslaved people, including her family and friends, along the Underground Railroad to freedom. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Few Black women lived in Wisconsin, though it was a free state and many White residents were involved in abolition and the Underground Railroad. States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z No one knows exactly where the term Underground Railroad came from. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Wright’s White Street home carries special significance because it is one of just 18 city sites with landmark protection that are associated with abolitionism or the Underground Railroad. In a storied building, the tale about the abolitionist is rarely told 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z The approach requires the score to rapidly incorporate momentous pivots in the Douglasses’ story, such as his escape from slavery, or Anna’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. Review | In beguiling ‘American Prophet,’ Frederick Douglass lets freedom sing 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z An escaped enslaved person herself, she returned to the South thirteen times to help over three hundred other freedom-seekers through the Underground Railroad to liberty in the North. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z On Sunday afternoon, the Jubilee Voices perform African American spirituals and folk songs and tell stories of freedom and the Underground Railroad at the city’s Market Square. How to celebrate Juneteenth in the D.C. area 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The operators of the Underground Railroad were abolitionists, or people who opposed slavery. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z She said the group contacted Operation Underground Railroad “and asked if they could start an investigation.” Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z She said the group contacted Underground Railroad “and asked if they could start an investigation.” Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Many Americans, both Black and White, flouted the Fugitive Slave Act by participating in the Underground Railroad, providing safe houses for freedom- seekers on the run from the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He plays Washington Henry, an escaped enslaved man traveling to Canada on the Underground Railroad who stops in New York to wait for his girlfriend. Sidney DuPont finds a ‘powerful, dynamic and necessary’ role 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The Underground Railroad successfully moved enslaved people to freedom despite the laws and people who tried to prevent it. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Operation Underground Railroad quickly set up a plan to lure Maatman into a trap, using the chat rooms and social media spaces he was active on. Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Operation Underground Railroad, or OUR, quickly set up a plan to lure Maatman into a trap, using the chat rooms and social media spaces he was active on. Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, southerners feared the influence of a vast Underground Railroad: the network of northern White and free Black people who sympathized with escapees and provided safe houses and safe passage from the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “She is the only one that we’re aware of that came back that many times anywhere on the Underground Railroad,” Harris said. In Harriet Tubman’s home state of Maryland, a new school bears her name 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1849. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s inevitable that this year’s contenders can’t come close to last year’s set of nominees — “Mare of Easttown,” “I May Destroy You,” “WandaVision,” “The Underground Railroad” and “The Queen’s Gambit,” which wound up winning. Emmys 2022 preview: Where does your favorite TV show stand? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Operation Underground Railroad flew Hidu and his handler to Mexico City, where prosecutors were about to search the apartment. Electronic-sniffing dog helps in pedophilia arrest in Mexico 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It is unclear how many enslaved people escaped through the Underground Railroad, but historians believe that between 50,000 and 100,000 used the network in their bids for freedom. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Going beyond state laws, black and white abolitionists formed the Underground Railroad, a network of sympathizers to smuggle fugitives to Canada and safety. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The lodge, which occupies the site of a former boys’ school, was most likely a stop on the Underground Railroad. Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday in Auburn, N.Y. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The second, “A Journey Begins: Nature’s Role in the Flight to Freedom,” explores the connections between the natural landscape and the Underground Railroad. Taking a Mid-Atlantic road trip? Stop at these native plant gardens along the way. 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He currently teaches African American spirituals, which sometimes used coded language to teach enslaved people about the Underground Railroad. The Texas abortion ban created a ‘vigilante’ loophole. Both parties are rushing to take advantage. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The fugitives usually followed different routes on the Underground Railroad. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For angry and frightened owners, however, any assistance to fugitives was outrageous, and tales of the Underground Railroad assumed a symbolic importance far exceeding the number of successful escapes. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Harriet Tubman passed through here quite a bit,” Linda said, alluding to Tubman’s multiple trips on the Underground Railroad. Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday in Auburn, N.Y. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In addition to being an abolitionist, planners said, Henson led 118 people out of enslavement to Canada as part of the Underground Railroad. Montgomery renames Montrose Parkway to honor formerly enslaved abolitionist 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z After learning about the Underground Railroad, she wondered why that had not been taught in her schools. Perspective | Winning the war on decorum 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The Underground Railroad was not an actual train. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Conductor” Harriet Tubman took direct action for freedom by entering the South 13 times after her own escape to rescue some 70 slaves through the clandestine network known as the Underground Railroad. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A few miles away in Skaneateles, Judith pointed out the Fuller House, which had sheltered passengers on the Underground Railroad. Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday in Auburn, N.Y. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z In another instance, the lesson plan - a 2019 reenactment of the Underground Railroad in an elementary school gym class in Loudoun County - was as offensive to African Americans as it was to whites. Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In another instance, the lesson plan — a 2019 reenactment of the Underground Railroad in an elementary school gym class in Loudoun County — was as offensive to African Americans as it was to whites. Youngkin looks to root out critical race theory in Virginia 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The “stations” on the Underground Railroad were the houses, churches, and other places the fugitives hid and rested. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Historians are unsure of the scope and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad, for propagandists on both sides had incentives to exaggerate. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z There is also the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, one of the new group of so-called “museums of conscience” meant to make visitors reflect and remember atrocities of the past. Ahead of the Super Bowl, Cincinnati native bares all about the Bengals 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Americans are probably most familiar with the Underground Railroad and the history of enslaved people escaping to the North, Luqman-Dawson said by phone from her home in Arlington, Virginia. Virginia swamp is a haven from slavery in ‘Freewater’ 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Plans to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with black abolitionist Harriet Tubman - who rescued enslaved people through the Underground Railroad - are still in the works. Maya Angelou: Poet is first black woman on US quarter 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Because the Underground Railroad was secret, no one knows how many enslaved African Americans escaped—probably only a few thousand each year between 1840 and 1860. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Southerners bitterly protested both personal liberty laws and the Underground Railroad, steadily claiming that northerners were violating their constitutional obligations, and calling for federal remedies. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Its location near the Ohio River is meant to honor the Underground Railroad. Ahead of the Super Bowl, Cincinnati native bares all about the Bengals 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The Biden administration announced soon after taking office a year ago that it planned to replace Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman, a leader in the Underground Railroad. US Mint begins shipping quarters honoring Maya Angelou 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z The new settlement also provided an ideal setting for fugitives from slavery to pause and refresh themselves while moving north on the Underground Railroad. Opinion | In Search of the Black Utopia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z On Christmas Eve 1854, Harriet Tubman, the fearless “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, rescued three of her brothers from the plantation near Cambridge, Maryland, where they were enslaved. Why Christmas was the best time of year to escape slavery 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Set in the antebellum South, Barry Jenkins’ powerful limited series “The Underground Railroad” imagines the terrifying journey of the enslaved out of slavery and into freedom. The 11 best TV shows of 2021 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Britell’s own music, featured in “Vice,” “The Underground Railroad,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Don’t Look Up,” cropped up in small moments. Commentary: The L.A. Phil looks at the unexpected places film music is going 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Africans, some who had escaped enslavement by using the Underground Railroad that wound through Appalachia, settled in and began hollowing out gourds to make an instrument native to their homeland. Perspective | Virginia’s multicultural country music history is a lesson more of us need to learn 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Established at a time when Georgetown was primarily African-American, Mount Zion played a role in the Underground Railroad system of transporting fugitive slaves to freedom and safety in the North. Three D.C. churches, including city’s oldest Black congregation, snag six-figure preservation grants 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z He became a respected minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and opened schools for Black children, and his home became an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Why Christmas was the best time of year to escape slavery 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z A building on the grounds, which was once used to hold bodies in the winter, is said to have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Perspective | While working to restore two historic Black cemeteries, she discovered a construction crew digging on burial grounds 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Considered one of this year’s most competitive Emmy fields, the limited or anthology series nominees also included “I May Destroy You,” “Mare of Easttown,” “The Underground Railroad” and “WandaVision.” 'The Queen's Gambit' wins 2021 Emmy for limited series 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z From Oscar winner Barry Jenkins, "The Underground Railroad" tells the story of a young woman's fight to break free from slavery in the deep south. Emmys 2021: A breakdown of the biggest nominated TV series 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z "These limited series are prestige TV," said Hall, referring to "I May Destroy You," "Mare of Easttown," "The Queen's Gambit," "WandaVision" and "The Underground Railroad." 'The Crown,' 'Ted Lasso' lead field in second pandemic-era Emmy Awards 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Amazon: Projects featuring stars and creators of color included Oscar nominee “One Night in Miami,” Emmy nominees “The Underground Railroad and “Small Axe,” and “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse.” Hollywood says its antiracism is not a 'fad.' So we asked for a status update 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z For “Underground Railroad,” they drew inspiration from Chicago painter Kerry James Marshall, whose brooding portraits of Black subjects vibrate with intensity. 'Underground Railroad' cinematographer takes viewers through all the feels 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The abolitionist Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, and the area was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Gloria Richardson, fiery civil rights activist in Maryland showdown, dies at 99 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z From “Lovecraft Country” to “Underground Railroad,” Tuesday’s nominations ensured Black stories will again play a major role at the Emmy Awards. Canceled by HBO, 'Lovecraft Country' Emmy nods leave its Black fans vindicated 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “I May Destroy You” and “The Underground Railroad” were favorites among critics, though the latter didn’t dominate broader cultural conversation as much as one might have expected from reading those reviews. Emmy nominations 2021: ‘The Crown,’ ‘The Mandalorian,’ ‘WandaVision’ lead with most nods 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z “I May Destroy You” will face off in the limited series category with another high-profile series, Amazon’s “The Underground Railroad.” The Black experience will once again be center stage at the Emmys 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Laxton’s most daunting task arose directly from the “Underground Railroad” premise itself. 'Underground Railroad' cinematographer takes viewers through all the feels 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z “Mare” is up against “The Queen’s Gambit,” “The Underground Railroad,” “WandaVision” and “I May Destroy You” in the limited or anthology series category. Kate Winslet and 'Mare of Easttown' score big with 2021 Emmy nominations 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z I’d think that Mbedu, a star in her native South Africa, will earn a nomination, along with maybe a couple of other members of the “Underground Railroad” cast. Emmys 2021: Our nomination predictions in all the key categories 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Like Coleman, Mangus points to Ashton’s history with Quakers and the Underground Railroad as key to its story and identity, emphasizing that there’s more to the community than meets the eye. Ashton, Md., awaits changes while preserving its historic, semirural character 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “You got a large group of Iranian militias who actively hunt down people with American affiliations in Iraq,” said Steve Miska, the author of “Baghdad Underground Railroad” and a retired U.S. Plan to evacuate U.S. allies from Afghanistan raises specters of Iraq and Vietnam 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad” is hardly the first series to wrestle with such issues. These series take us a step closer to slavery not being about race, but about America 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Delaware in particular was a stop on the Underground Railroad, so there was this Harriet Tubman reenactment that was also happening. You never forget your first Juneteenth. Let these Black Angelenos tell you why 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Tubman is a unique figure in American history, escaping from slavery to become a well-known “conductor” on the Underground Railroad who led enslaved people to freedom. When will Harriet Tubman adorn the $20 bill? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z In 1777, the church prohibited its members from enslaving people, and Ashton later became a major stop on the Underground Railroad. Ashton, Md., awaits changes while preserving its historic, semirural character 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Tubman is a unique figure in American history, escaping from slavery to become a well-known “conductor” on the Underground Railroad that led enslaved people to freedom. When will Harriet Tubman adorn the $20 bill? 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z For all its tragedy, there’s something fanciful at the heart of “Underground Railroad,” which features an actual railroad running, well, underground, taking the would-be free from one state to the next. These series take us a step closer to slavery not being about race, but about America 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z I haven’t seen any part of the series “The Underground Railroad” but I was mystified and saddened by the article about it. Calendar Feedback: Directors should honor African Americans by hiring Black Americans to play them 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z For ‘The Underground Railroad,’ about the harrowing escape from slavery, director Barry Jenkins took a novel step: hiring a mental health counselor. How 'Master of None' got its portrait of in vitro fertilization right 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z ‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless. The 10 new shows you should watch, from ‘Cruel Summer’ to ‘Mare of Easttown’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The youngster would eventually learn that “Underground Railroad” was actually a colorful term for a network of safe houses and routes utilized by slaves to escape their oppressive masters in the antebellum South. Making a TV show about slavery is enough to undo you. Ask Barry Jenkins 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Instead, such shows as “Underground Railroad” and “The Good Lord Bird” do something more realistic — and rewarding. These series take us a step closer to slavery not being about race, but about America 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z When they escape Georgia and emerge from the Underground Railroad in South Carolina, it’s a seemingly progressive place devoted to helping the freed with various educational and social programs. Review: In 'The Underground Railroad,' an Oscar winner re-imagines slavery from the inside out 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Some viewers will understandably approach “The Underground Railroad” with trepidation: Jenkins presents the horrors of slavery in unflinching and relentless detail. Review | ‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless. It is also beautiful, must-see TV. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z As Jenkins and I sat on the little studio couch, Britell played an early sketch for the opening of “The Underground Railroad.” The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Whitehead reimagines the Underground Railroad as a boxcar powered by a steam locomotive transporting slaves to free states though subterranean tunnels. Making a TV show about slavery is enough to undo you. Ask Barry Jenkins 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z For enslaved people in the South who escaped to New York, a main stop on the Underground Railroad, permanent freedom was not guaranteed. The Stealth Sticker Campaign to Expose New York’s History of Slavery 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “The Nickel Boys,” about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era; it was his second consecutive Pulitzer-winning novel, following “The Underground Railroad.” Today in History 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z As recently reported by the New York Times, Jenkins briefly considered abandoning “The Underground Railroad,” a project that was met with some skepticism and the recurring question of whether Hollywood needs more stories about slavery. Review | ‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless. It is also beautiful, must-see TV. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z “The Underground Railroad” emerged from last year broken and changed but still recognizable; you can feel that February session still underfoot. The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But while Jenkins is obviously proud about his achievement, he also realizes “The Underground Railroad” represents the biggest risk of his career. Making a TV show about slavery is enough to undo you. Ask Barry Jenkins 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z It is home to a historically Black college, and before the Civil War it was a stop on the Underground Railroad, helping people escape slavery along the Pasquotank River and into the nearby Dismal Swamp. Black residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., thought police violence happened in other places. Then it came to their town. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z It is home to a historically Black college, and before the Civil War was a stop on the Underground Railroad, helping people escape slavery along the Pasquotank River and into the nearby Dismal Swamp. Black residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., thought police violence happened elsewhere. Then it came to their town. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z In some ways, this made “The Underground Railroad” all the more difficult to watch. Review | ‘The Underground Railroad’ is traumatic, unflinching and relentless. It is also beautiful, must-see TV. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z They were still early in their work on “The Underground Railroad” — a 10-part series, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead, that debuts on Amazon this month. The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The first episode of “The Underground Railroad” is likely to add more fuel to the debate. Making a TV show about slavery is enough to undo you. Ask Barry Jenkins 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The series positions her as a Harriet Tubman figure, helping others leave through an Underground Railroad manned by Handmaids and Marthas. Why I'm not giving up on 'The Handmaid's Tale' yet 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z And it illuminates the role that her father, and her family, played in her development into the fearless Underground Railroad conductor that she became. Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z She escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist who helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad. Archaeologists: Site of Harriet Tubman’s father’s home found 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Directed by Barry Jenkins, all episodes of The Underground Railroad— a sure Emmy contender that looks hauntingly beautiful— will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on May 14th. New Trailers: Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad, Resident Evil, and more 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z It became a passageway on the Underground Railroad — and, in its deepest reaches, the site of permanent maroon settlements where runaway African Americans and subjugated Native Americans found unlikely refuge. The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it. 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z Some theories suggested the creek was named after Black families who lived in an old township in the area, or that it was part of the Underground Railroad for fleeing slaves. Kansas county mulls changing creek’s racially loaded name 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z He also told her about the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z It will be added as a new point of interest to the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway. Archaeologists: Site of Harriet Tubman’s father’s home found 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z In 1913, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York; she was in her 90s. Today in History 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z In 2002 he began working on a proposal to disseminate information on New York City’s role in the Underground Railroad. He Honors Black New Yorkers. Not All Black Activists Are Thrilled. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Before she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a disabled and enslaved Harriet Tubman likely used the North Star, just as Henry Bibb did, to navigate to freedom. NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z He noted that his great-great-grandfather arrived in America in the belly of a slave ship but went on to escape slavery through the Underground Railroad and become a successful entrepreneur. Biden backs studying reparations as Congress considers bill 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The FBI and New Zealand police were also involved in the investigation, officials said, along with Operation Underground Railroad - a non-profit group that helps governments rescue sex trafficking victims. Thai child modelling agent charged over child sex abuse images 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z She helped scores of other slaves escape the South by guiding them north on the Underground Railroad, an informal network that helped escaping slaves evade capture and reach free states. Harriet Tubman: What to know about the Underground Railroad icon 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z In 2019, Mr. Morris visited the board several times to pitch renaming Willoughby Square, also in Downtown Brooklyn, to Abolitionist Place Park, because of Underground Railroad sites on neighboring streets. He Honors Black New Yorkers. Not All Black Activists Are Thrilled. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Bailey was an abolitionist whose father-in-law had been a conductor on the Underground Railroad. First slave freed by Lincoln buried under Peoria pavement 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as the fearless woman who escaped slavery and then helped lead 300 other enslaved people to freedom as part of the Underground Railroad. Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z These networks have been the infrastructure of generations of social movements, from the Underground Railroad to the Montgomery bus boycott, and have played critical roles in natural-disaster relief operations. Tired of waiting on the government, hungry Americans turn to one another for help 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The latest offering from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Underground Railroad” is the playful tale of a heist, set at a Harlem hotel in the early 1960s. Our critic picks 20 of the most eagerly awaited books of 2021 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Once during Black History Month, she recalled, gym teachers at her elementary school organized an “Underground Railroad” game, where students were told to run through an obstacle course in the dark. A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z “I think people often don’t realize how many Underground Railroad stories are in their backyards,” said Diane Miller, the National Program manager. Historic designation honors Underground Railroad operatives 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z But Tubman wasn’t only a hero of the Underground Railroad. Renowned as a Black liberator, Harriet Tubman was also a brilliant spy 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The faceless figures represent the thousands of enslaved people who made the treacherous journey along the Underground Railroad, while the brilliant colors suggest that joy can be found even in horrific situations. Drawings of Underground Railroad journey, maps, at Currier 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The National Park Service officially recognized the site as part of the Underground Railroad in 2018. Kansas Underground Railroad barn eyed for history center 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z She’s also debuting her artwork, Canals/Underground Railroad, which traces the use of canals as part of the Underground Railroad during the 19th century, citing the Erie Canal among the routes to Canada. Artist Howardena Pindell on understanding 'the trauma of racism' 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Twice a year, the Network to Freedom reviews and accepts applications from sites, facilities and programs with verified connections to the Underground Railroad. Historic designation honors Underground Railroad operatives 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers an actual railroad of conductors and a secret network of tracks beneath the Southern soil. Barry Jenkins' 'Underground Railroad' teaser bowls over peers: 'I am not ready' 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Enslaved The new episode “Resistance” explores the opposition to slavery in Africa and the thousands who risked their lives as part of the Underground Railroad in the U.S. What's on TV Monday: 'Manhunt: Deadly Games'; SCOTUS confirmation 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The area had an open secret then: It was filled with stations on the Underground Railroad for slaves trying to reach freedom. With Americans anxious to go out, walking tours pick up pace 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Escaped slave Harriet "Moses" Tubman understood the Underground Railroad as a Christian project of liberation, while escaped slave Frederick Douglass fought for abolition through churches across the north in the pre-Civil War years. The rise of Christian Nationalism in America 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z At the local bandshell, 200 people gathered to listen to a historian from Shawnee State talk about a Portsmouth barber’s role in helping fugitive slaves reach safety as part of the Underground Railroad. Why a Pro-Trump Town No Longer Sees Him as a Rescuer 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z In Hagerstown, activists hope the refurbished cabin will be a catalyst for change in one of the state’s oldest African American communities, a probable stop on the Underground Railroad. A rediscovered log cabin showcases one of Maryland’s forgotten Black communities 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The two families’ ranches served as a stop on the Underground Railroad to Mexico, descendants said. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The Cincinnati Bengals, after marching to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, issued a statement about ending racial inequality, while the New Orleans Saints pledged to give a platform to the voices of Black women. Kneeling now NFL-approved, the Ravens search for new ways to take a stand 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z The University of Maryland announced Friday it’s renaming the women’s studies department after Harriet Tubman – the 19-century abolitionist and famous female “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. University of Maryland renames women's studies department after Harriet Tubman 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Bengals players, coaches, ownership and staff marched together in Cincinnati from Paul Brown Stadium to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Saturday. NFL teams huddling up to devise plans for social change 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z There’s also an exhibit on early settlers to the region, which includes the county’s role in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Suburban Chicago museum in forest preserve to reopen 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z The Federal Writers’ Project of the Depression-era Works Progress Administration gathered stories as part of its Slave Narrative Collection, including ones from former slaves openly talking about the Underground Railroad to Mexico. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z They traveled along Underground Railroad routes, crossing bridges in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, on trails and bike lanes and on rough roadways in mixed traffic. New Yorkers are biking for Black lives — and to end disparities in cycling 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Last month in South Carolina, West delivered an unconventional campaign introduction speech during which he proposed a $1 million payout to mothers and decried Harriet Tubman for her work on the Underground Railroad. Kanye West fails to qualify on Ohio ballot in November 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z “We’ve always been here, like the Underground Railroad. But it’s surfaced now. In a big way. It’s a rail train.” “If not now, when?”: Black women seize political spotlight 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The group hopes to research and rediscover African American history, ranging from slavery and the Underground Railroad to the arts and more. New group hopes to discover Black history in the Tri-State 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z But just how organized the Underground Railroad to Mexico was and what happened to former slaves and those who helped them remains a mystery. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z He added that he was especially dispirited by the statue’s destruction because of its location near Kelsey’s Landing, a point along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and others helped escort enslaved people to freedom. Who Tore Down This Frederick Douglass Statue? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z He is the first author to win Pulitzers for consecutive works of fiction - “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys,” for which he won in April. Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z From her escape from slavery through the dangerous missions she led to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad, the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman is told. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, July 12, 2020 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The setting is transportive, and part of that is because a number of sites in Dorchester County, including the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park, sit within the vast boundaries of the Blackwater Refuge. The region’s history comes alive in these immersive guided tours 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z National Park Service outlined a route from Natchitoches, Louisiana, through Texas to Monclova, Mexico, that could be considered a rough path of the Underground Railroad south. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The statue of Douglass was dismantled and taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Frederick Douglass statue vandalized in New York park on anniversary of famous Fourth of July speech 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Trump demands Nascar driver Bubba Wallace apologize over noose incident – live 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Police said the statue of Douglass was taken on Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglas and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Frederick Douglass statue vandalized in Rochester park 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Wisely, the tour doesn’t focus only on Tubman lore: Listeners meet Hugh Hazlett, an Irish lawyer who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and a group of escapees known as the Dover Eight. The region’s history comes alive in these immersive guided tours 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The examination of the Underground Railroad to Mexico comes as the U.S. is undergoing a racial reckoning around policing and systemic racism. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Cohen, who is black, leads the Montgomery County Lynching Memorial Project and runs a foundation that preserves and shares the history of the Underground Railroad in Maryland. A Confederate statue is toppled in rural Maryland, then quietly stored away 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z He became leader in the Underground Railroad and is said to have helped nearly 200 escaping slaves between 1841 and 1846. Volunteers clean up alley with ties to Underground Railroad 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “Underground Railroad” combined historical detail from the 19th century and a unique twist: Whitehead imagined the network for bringing runaway slaves North to their freedom as a literal railroad. An eventful year for Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z The app’s directions to the Underground Railroad State Park say it’s “to be completed in 2015,” and the printed version of the guide is dated 2017. The region’s history comes alive in these immersive guided tours 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z And as a result, stories about African Americans and Mexican Americans working together to fight racism are not shared, Wilkins said, including the history of the Underground Railroad to Mexico. Story of the Underground Railroad to Mexico gains attention 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z |
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