Its baptismal font was given in memory of George Henry Sharpe ... Several of the most prominent black abolitionists, including Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Eliza Ann Gardner ...

The U.S. Navy may rename ships named for prominent civil rights and other American leaders like Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader ...

Written by and starring Leslie McCurdy, “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” is a one-woman play based on the life of the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to review the names of several ships honoring the likes of slain gay ...

“I think Harriet Tubman is fantastic, but I would love to leave Andrew Jackson or see if we can maybe come up with another denomination.” In 2020, then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

The first event of the three-day Harriet Tubman Pilgrimage has been moved to a new location. Karen Hill, president and CEO of the Harriet Tubman Home, told The Citizen an event with Edda Fields ...

Harriet Tubman, as Bob the Drag Queen notes, has become a national icon. Her exploits in liberating her fellow slaves, her extraordinary effectiveness as an intelligence agent for the Union army, and ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

The 2025-26 state budget contains Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to replace Robert Livingston's statue with one of Harriet Tubman in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Each state can provide ...

Harriet Tubman photographed in 1877, 14 years after the Combahee River Raid. Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her ...