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Underground Season 2 Episode 9 Recap
“A sense of safety transforms the spirit.” —- Georgia We return to the safe house and how come we haven’t seen the other ladies of the sewing circle in like a month of Sundays? If you recall from last week’s episode, Cato was taken in as a runaway slave and he’s there as a stowaway…
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Underground Season 2 Episode 8 Recap
Bokeem Woodbine’s Daniel has been blinded since we saw him running from the overseer raid from last week. As a skilled craftsmen who depends on his eyes in order to create intricate granite work, it’s particularly disgusting that he would not only be punished in this way for knowing how to read but have the…
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Underground Season 2 Episode 7 Recap
After dedicating last week to the one-woman show that was Aisha Hinds’ Emmy consideration reel, Underground returns to form with “28”. We check back in with my favorite character whose story-line has yet to be connected to any other character, Daniel. Looks like he’s changed his mind about not teaching other slaves to read and…
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Underground Season 2 Episode 5 Recap
This week’s episode of Underground was titled “Whiteface” and it was so jam-packed with plot that I half-way expected the little boy from that one episode of Atlanta to make an appearance. He doesn’t, by the way, but with the season at the midpoint the show has a lot of ground to cover so I guess…
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Ga. Woman Says She Shot 15-Year-Old Black Boy in Self-Defense After He Threw Rocks
A white Georgia woman who once voiced concern about her neighborhood and “bad blacks” is now facing charges for shooting a black teenager in the head after he walked past her house Monday evening, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, Elisabeth Cannon was charged with two counts of aggravated assault in…
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DOJ Will Not File Charges in Death of Kendrick Johnson
The Department of Justice will not be filing any charges in the 2013 death of Georgia high schooler Kendrick Johnson, whose body was found in a rolled-up wrestling mat at his school, with officials saying there was “insufficient evidence to support federal criminal charges,” 11Alive reports. According to the report, Johnson’s family met with the DOJ…