The Underground Railroad : Slavery saga hits screens
Two influential Black creators combine as Moonlight director Barry Jenkins transforms Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a powerful TV series.
The novel and the TV series play on the fantasy that the Underground Railroad was an actual train network
The 19th-century network of secret routes and safe houses that was developed in the US to help enslaved African-Americans escape to free states or Canada was referred to as the Underground Railroad.
Those who guided the enslaved people were known as conductors, while hiding places such as private homes, churches and schoolhouses were stations, safe houses or depots. The people organizing these locations were stationmasters.
Haiti: Kidnapped Catholic nuns, priests freed
Nearly three weeks after being abducted from a road outside Port-au-Prince, several Catholic clergy members have been released. Their kidnapping sparked nationwide outrage and anger over a wave of recent abductions.
People pray against an epidemic of kidnappings sweeping Haiti during a Mass in Port-au-Prince
Several Catholic nuns and priests abducted earlier this month in Haiti have now been released, a missionary group said on Friday.
They were the last members of a group of Catholic clergy to be freed, coming after widespread public outcry over their abduction.
What we know
The Society of Priests of Saint Jacques announced their release in a statement, saying the hostages were unharmed.
Someone robbed a Toronto gallery and got away with nearly $300k worth of art
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In a heist that seems more like something out of a movie than something that actually happens in your home city, an independent contemporary gallery in Toronto s Yorkville neighbourhood has been robbed of nearly $300,000 worth of fine art.
Perhaps inspired by the new Netflix release
This is a Robbery, three perpetrators broke into the swanky Galerie de Bellefeuille on Avenue Road just north of Bloor at around midnight on Monday.
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