The Underground Railroad

Black America Web got a chance to chop it up with burgeoning actress Kylee D. Allen to get the scoop on her new role in the hit Amazon Prime Video series, 'The Underground Railroad.'

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has a new book club pick, Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” a historical novel that imagines the network of safe houses and passages that helped slaves escape to free territory is an actual train. Winfrey told The Associated Press during a recent telephone interview that she knew from the […]

  WGN America’s series Underground follows a group of men and women who use their power to attempt the greatest escape in history. Jurnee Smollett Bell talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the 10-episode, hour-long original series, the film’s celebration of women both on and off screen and more. “We have 10 episodes […]

The Blackburns, who married while en route to their new city, settled in and became fixtures of the community. However, the fugitive slave laws of the time allowed slaveowners to apprehend escaped slaves who traveled to the North. The Blackburns were jailed and went through several court proceedings in a bid to remain free. As […]