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The underground railroad here is not the historical “railroad,” which was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering assistance to slaves escaping from the South.
The Underground Railroad Is the Cinematic Event of the Year Vulture.com 10 hrs ago © Amazon Studios Amazon Studios The Underground Railroad — the miniseries adaptation directed, co-written, and produced by filmmaker Barry Jenkins — is an excavation of a wound that has yet to heal. This wound — the existence and afterlife of the transatlantic slave trade, which rewrote the rules of the world and the castes we have been slotted into — is one of the essential markers of American life. It has been festering for over 400 years and weighs on every step Black people take, individually a...
'The Underground Railroad' is far more than binge TV (opinion) CNN 2 days ago Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph © Kyle Kaplan/Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios Thuso Mbedu in Barry Jenkins' adaptation of 'The Underground Railroad' (Kyle Kaplan/Amazon Studios). Note: This op-ed contains mild spoilers for "The Underground Railroad." "The Underground Railroad," premiering against the backdrop of America's current national reckoning on the politics of race, offers a luminous, troubling, artistically sophisticated and emotionally wrenching journey into racial slavery that reveals the pecu...
"The Underground Railroad," a new Amazon Prime Video series, tells the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu). This piece contains slight spoilers for âThe Underground Railroad.â I took a deep breath before starting âThe Underground Railroad,â Barry Jenkinsâ TV adaptation of Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The limited series, which premiered Friday on Amazon Prime Video, is a harrowing yet stunning 10-hour saga starring captivating newcomer Thuso Mbedu as Cora, an enslaved woman on a journey to freedom across the antebellum South by...