The Moonstone Art Center in Philadelphia has coordinated a citywide festival about the Underground Railroad, the escape network that helped enslaved Africans of the South flee to the freedom of the ...

Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-7816) Songs of Freedom: The Underground Railroad The “Moses of her people”, Harriett Tubman was the Conductor of the Underground Railroad.

PASADENA, Calif. – The Underground Railroad, a path and a movement that allowed people to escape slavery in pre-Civil War America, forms the center of WGN America's Underground (March 9). Actors ...

Slavery Is a Love Song. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. October 31, 2012. ... The Underground Railroad springs not simply from the immorality of labor-theft, but from the immorality familiocide.

“Underground,” WGN America’s drama about the Underground Railroad, is set in 1857, but the action started with a Kanye West song. The 10-part series (which airs at 10 p.m. Wednesdays ...

George Lucas found himself backpedaling after he likened the Disney Co. to “white slavers.” Presidential hopeful Ben Carson referred to Obamacare as the “worst thing since slavery.” And ...

Nearly two centuries ago, the room above the sanctuary hid slaves traveling on the Underground Railroad. By 1850, It’s estimated that 100,000 slaves escaped to freedom through this route.