Author Colson Whitehead on his new novel The Underground Railroad
Listen 00:48:47Guest: Colson Whitehead
Host Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with prizewinning, bestselling author COLSON WHITEHEAD, and his recent novel The Underground Railroad, about Cora and Caesar, two slaves who go make a bid for freedom from the antebellum South. The book was chosen as a 2016 selection for Oprah’s Book Club. Tonight, Whitehead will be at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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