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There is a fine line between Calabash and a cult. After all, there exist legions who will not miss the biennial festival for ...
Look, I’ll shout out Black filmmakers all day, every day. Nia DaCosta, Steve McQueen, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Antoine ...
Tribeca Festival unveiled an eclectic jury lineup across 15 categories with writers, directors. actors, Oscar winners and ...
Additional stars helping to select the top projects across film, games and audio storytelling competitions include Jennifer ...
NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night for The Underground Railroad (Doubleday), the story of Cora, a young slave who through her wiles escapes ...
I consumed Barry Jenkins’ 10-part limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad over the course of a weekend because, basically, I couldn’t stop.
Colson Whitehead's 'Crook Manifesto' Wins $50,000 Gotham Prize for Outstanding Book About NYC NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead's latest literary honor feels very much at home. The author's ...
These are words from the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and they serve as an inspirational catalyst for Colson Whitehead’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys.” The book ...
Colson Whitehead's 2019 novel The Nickel Boys follows the studious and idealistic Elwood Curtis, a Black teenager whose prized possession is a recording of speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.
In the first of those interviews, Colson Whitehead remembers what it was like to write and publish “The Underground Railroad” “It was a wild time, definitely,” Whitehead said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s latest literary honor feels very much at home. The author’s “Crook Manifesto,” a crime story set in 1970s Harlem and centered on a beleaguered ...