Kennett Square heralds itself as the mushroom capital of the world, but what many people may not know is it was a crucial stop on the Underground Railroad.

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.

The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative will be dedicating two of Ironton's historic sites in Ironton that were part of the Underground Railroad. On Wednesday at 10 a.m., a marker will ...

The Underground Railroad was a 17th century network of secret ... Enslaved people would often make these songs up themselves, and they would only be shared with the people that needed to know ...

Trace the dynamic journey from slavery to freedom through the personal accounts of William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved married couple who hid in plain sight while using multiple modes of ...

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(KANSAS NEWS SERVICE) - The Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas — once a stop along the Underground Railroad for people escaping slavery and a home to abolitionists during the “Free State ...