An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...

William Still interviewed all the people he helped, a set of records later turned into the seminal book “The Underground Railroad Records,” published in 1872. Peter Still started telling a ...

The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

What many people don’t know about is the significance of Bucks County’s connection to the Underground Railroad. Most are aware that in the 18th and 19th centuries as people escaped slavery in ...

Records show he was involved in at least 27 separate instances of aiding former slaves to freedom. His home in Leicester was a known stop on the Underground Railroad and place for local ...

In his episodic debut, Academy Award™ winner Barry Jenkins tackles a topical and electrifying subject that speaks directly to this in the new Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad on ...