The bust, she explained, faced North, where Tubman had led dozens of enslaved people to freedom. “It was a dark time,’’ said Mitchell, superintendent of the Harriet Tubman Underground ...

"It is such an extraordinary story and historical document," Fields-Black said. "It is extremely rare to know an enslaved ...

with guest host Quinta Brunson playing famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Keenan Thompson also played orator and author Frederick Douglass in the sketch titled "Will & Todd's Radical Experience." ...

Her 2024 book, “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” was named a Pulitzer Prize winner in history. It’s described as “a richly-textured ...

Will and Todd share further and try to put some sense into Tubman and Douglass. “Harriet, what about the Underground Railroad?” asked Todd. She replied, “Oh, my cousin Janet can do it.

New York will replace Robert Livingston’s statue with one of Harriet Tubman in the U.S ... Kathy Hochul praised Tubman’s deep ties to New York, where she lived and fought for freedom in Auburn. The ...

Quinta Brunson guest hosted "SNL" this weekend. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI ...

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It took no time after that great victory for the victors to co-opt the defeated fascists to trounce the very freedom fighters who had resisted fascism. In Greece, in Vietnam, in Indonesia, in South ...