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‘Born to run’: Biden quips about 2024 as he gives medals to Bruce Springsteen and Julia-Louis Dreyfus
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Born to run’: Biden quips about 2024 as he gives medals to Bruce Springsteen and Julia-Louis Dreyfus

The Independent  

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The waking dream of ’The Underground Railroad’
3 years, 7 months ago

The waking dream of ’The Underground Railroad’

Live Mint  

The Underground Railroad was the name given to the complex clandestine network of abolitionists, Quakers, activists and former slaves who helped spirit African-Americans to safety in the 1800s. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead imagined it as an actual railway line on which Cora, a runaway from the deep south, travels, pursued by the terrifying …

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How Amazon's 'Underground Railroad' avoided traumatizing cast
3 years, 7 months ago

How Amazon's 'Underground Railroad' avoided traumatizing cast

LA Times  

Barry Jenkins vividly recalls the moment he first heard about the Underground Railroad. “I was around 5 or 6, and when I first heard those words, it wasn’t even imagined — I saw Black people on trains that were underground,” he recalled. Jenkins brings his childhood vision of the railroad full circle with the highly anticipated “The Underground Railroad,” Amazon’s …

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The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen

Firstpost  

“This isn’t the first slave narrative that’s been made, but I think we’re creating these images in a way, cinematically, that they just haven’t been created before,” says The Underground Railroad director Barry Jenkins. “To my surprise, only 10 percent of the people said that it shouldn’t be done,” Jenkins told me when I visited him in Atlanta near the …

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The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery

Firstpost  

Under the cover of darkness, the enslaved people of America fled further North in search of freedom. Sethe, the runaway protagonist of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, escapes from Kentucky to Ohio, ferried across the river by the Underground Railroad agent Stamp Paid. Harriet Tubman is rightly famous for how boldly she faced those risks.” Tubman, who made several trips back and …

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Barry Jenkins: ‘If we can’t bear witness to brutality, we risk erasing my ancestors’
3 years, 7 months ago

Barry Jenkins: ‘If we can’t bear witness to brutality, we risk erasing my ancestors’

The Independent  

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Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead
4 years, 5 months ago

Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead keeps winning awards. Already this year’s recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library of Congress. Whitehead, 50, is the youngest winner of the lifetime achievement prize, which the library has previously given to Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Denis Johnson, …

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