In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s popular novel “The Underground Railroad,” it is as if the land speaks. In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund ...

Then a friend came over and played that song from the early ’60s ... though I’ve never actually said it out loud. Cora, in The Underground Railroad, she’s just trying to live a normal ...

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The events include a block party, the showing of a documentary film, and a commemorative program at a Black cemetery.