From the first page of Colson Whitehead’s extraordinary novel The Underground Railroad I knew I was reading something ground-shifting. I’ve been a student of African-American history since ...

Nickel Boys' stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson discuss the Orion Pictures release, director RaMell Ross, co-star ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant ... the son of a slaveholding family who facilitated many escapes, Levi Coffin who led more than 3,000 slaves to freedom and, perhaps the most famous Conductor ...

US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the ...