The Underground Railroad follows a young Black woman’s dark odyssey out of slavery. The show and book pretend that the historic Underground Railroad was a real system of subterranean mass transit.

Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV. Stuart Miller. Los Angeles Times. When WGN America’s drama “Underground” debuted last winter, it seemed like a cultural outlier.

“The Underground Railroad,” his seventh book, won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In a New York Times review, ...

Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" has been a runaway success. The author talks about racism, writing and Barry Jenkins directing the television series based on his novel.

It's hard to list influential books of 2016 without mentioning The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.. The book paints a portrait of slavery and American history by following Cora, a slave ...

Oprah's Book Club is back with 'Underground Railroad' For Whitehead, it’s by far his best showing on USA TODAY’s list. Railroad, the story of a young escaped slave named Cora, is his sixth ...

Nobody could wait for Colson Whitehead’s new book — including Oprah, so here it is, a month early. In a surprise announcement a week ago, Winfrey chose “The Underground Railroad” as the ...

Oprah's Book Club has tapped Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad as its newest selection. Whitehead's sixth novel, the story of a teenage slave's bid for freedom in 1850s Georgia, is out ...

Kathy Schulz is a former Ohioan who has just published a book called "The Underground Railroad in Ohio." It tells the story of how Ohio grew as a slavery-free state and the important role it ...

MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio – Kathy Schulz, who wrote “The Underground Railroad in Ohio,” is scheduled to speak at the Maple Heights branch of the Cuyahoga Public Library on Thursday, Oct. 26.

The book, “A History of the Underground Railroad in Decatur County,” will be officially available to the public June 14 during a kickoff event at Art on the Square Art Gallery in Greensburg.

On a night of nervous laughter and cathartic tears and applause, Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award for fiction and Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis, of ...