There is a long history of Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth flag, but to sum things up: Juneteenth celebrates the ...

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom ... I would have the other.” —Harriet Tubman 50. “This is the day we pay homage to all those ...

Famed abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman, the former slave who helped ferry dozens to freedom along the Underground Railroad, would replace former President Andrew Jackson on the front of ...

Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War," will be held from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St. The event was scheduled to be ...

“Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” (Oxford University Press) tells the story of the Union Army’s June 1863 raid on Confederate ...

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 ...

Kathy Hochul's proposal to replace Robert Livingston's statue with one of Harriet ... that Tubman's history is "deeply connected to New York, where she lived and worked to advance freedom and ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.' Edda Fields-Black was announced as the winner of a Pulitzer ...

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 ...