Hip-hop artist, poet, and author Andre Saunders’ words extolling Harriet Tubman’s legacy will now live in perpetuity on the ...

A portrait of Harriet Tubman (ca. 1820-1913). Tubman, herself an escaped slave, helped hundreds of slaves escape the South by means of the Underground Railroad. She nursed Union troops during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black artist Alvin Pettit's winning sculpture of Harriet Tubman (above), titled "A Higher Power: The Call of a Freedom Fighter," ...

Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as the fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad—but few know she led the largest liberation of enslaved people in U.S. military history. A new exhibition at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bob the Drag Queen has brought Harriet Tubman back to life with urgency and humor in their new book, Harriet Tubman: Live in ...

A measure to replace President Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill is being taken up again in Congress. Monday's announcement is the latest push to honor Tubman on the ...

In 2025, it feels like history is being rewritten in real time—and not quietly. Recently, the National Park Service removed Harriet Tubman’s photo and quote from its official “Underground Railroad” ...

A contest is underway to select the quote that will appear on the soon-to-be-installed Harriet Tubman statue in Center City. In February, Philadelphia officials released an open call asking for an ...

Harriet Tubman is an American figure whose story is so incredible, it's still almost hard to believe that it's true. After escaping slavery, she made numerous trips to save those still enslaved. The ...

In January, Willie Phillips of the Laguna Woods African American Heritage Club bought 104 tickets to the play “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” and chartered two buses to take residents to the one-night ...

The Treasury Department announced yesterday that Harriet Tubman will soon become the first African-American to be on the front of a currency bill, and the first woman on U.S. currency in a century.

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...