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Australian actress Jessica De Gouw recently spoke to Digital Spy about the now cancelled, critically-acclaimed and commercially successful series Underground. De Gouw portrayed Elizabeth Hawkes, an abolitionist socialite who had to figure out how to navigate those worlds and ultimately leverage her social positioning to advocate for and get involved in freeing slaves.

WGN America announced on Monday that they had renewed its hit show Underground for a second season.

Eric Holder Jr., the nation’s first black U.S. attorney general is set to announce his resignation Thursday. Two sources familiar with the decision say Holder intends the leave the Justice Department as soon as his successor is confirmed.

  Courtrooms around the country are battling over whether or not states can impose voter ID laws, but they have focused primarily on issues of access when opposing the legislation. But a new study shows that voter ID laws can negatively impact a portion of the population that is often overlooked. America’s transgender community. 

In the wake of the one year anniversary of George Zimmerman being found not guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin, and Eric Garner being choked to death by NYPD on video, we sat down with our 1Hood Media Academy students and asked them how they feel about being young Black Men in America.

The following piece originally appeared on The New York Times under the “To the Editor” section. It was submitted by Sarah Bryer in response to the Central Park Five ruling. By: Sarah Bryer   To the Editor: Re “5 Exonerated in Jogger Rape Agree to Settle” (front page, June 20): The story of the Central Park Five […]

Opposition to reparations has been widespread, and the results of a recent poll shows that sentiment has not changed much. Latest research from YouGov shows a significant divide, along both racial and political lines about the topic. 

Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o has optioned the rights to a film based on Chimamanda Adichie’s most recent novel, Americanah.  Adichie had previously hinted at the project, but the news was just confirmed recently via the Stylist Magazine blog.

WGN America struck gold earlier this year when they premiered Underground, a drama set in the American South prior to the Civil War as it follows runaway slaves called the Macon 7 attempting to flee north. 

WGN America’s Underground is a critical series that has brought in millions of viewers on a weekly basis as it tells the story of a group of slaves utilizing the Underground Railroad to reach freedom. So it was only a matter of time before viewers got to meet the conductor of the railroad, Harriet Tubman. 

The story of Black Wall Street is almost a myth at this point. That’s not because the idea of an economically flourishing black neighborhood in the 1920’s is hard to believe. It’s because it was both literally and figuratively wiped away from existence in less than two days. Fortunately, WGN America is partnering with John […]

Underground is a new period drama that follows a group of runaway slaves as they use the Underground Railroad to reach freedom. The 10-episode series plays on WGN America and is executive produced by John Legend, who recently spoke about what he wants the series to accomplish during an interview with AOL.