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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in): A Magnificent Tour De Force Chronicling A Young Slave’s Adventures As She Makes A Desperate Bid For Freedom

Publisher Description Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to ...

Black Women In Television And Film – Grace In The Face Of Discrimination

When I was fourteen, I traveled to North Carolina with my mother to her home town in Greensboro and experienced a kind of racism that gave me a serious wake up call about discrimination. I was angry, confused and hurt that we could have been arrested just for shopping like normal people and the experience affects me still today. This was in 1968, the same year that Martin Luther King Jr, was murdered, and I felt strong in my Blackness due to the achievements of the Civil Rights movement taking place up to and during this time. In this Five and Dime discount store, as I browsed and touched things I was followed by a white clerk and warned by my mother to not put the hat I was looking at on my head. Defiant, fourteen and coming from Ohio where white people were a little more subtle about th...

THE LAUNCH OF #URBANPULSE TELEVISION NETWORK WEBSITE

The All New #URBANPULSE INTERNET TELEVISION NETWORK WEBSITE Will Launch In Jan. The Launch Date Will Be Announced Soon. The New Site Will Feature The PRIME TIME CHANNEL, FEATURED TV CHANNEL, NEWS CHANNEL, ORIGINAL WEB SERIES CHANNEL, REALITY TV CHANNEL, WEB TV CHANNEL, NEW CHANNELS WILL BE ADDED PERIODICALLY AND CHANNEL CONTENT WILL BE UPDATED ON A WEEKLY BASIS!