A century-and-a-half ago, two Black families — the Murrys and Thomases — lived and farmed in a small community on the corner of Muzzy Road and Oregon Plains Road. Some of them had escaped slavery and ...

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for a status update on Harriet Tubman’s face being placed on the $20 bill. The “Harriet Tubman Tribute Act of 2025” calls ...

“Well, Andrew Jackson had a great history, and I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” then-candidate Trump said in an interview with NBC News. “I think Harriet ...

Harriet Tubman’s face on the $20 bill appears to be in limbo. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said swapping President Andrew Jackson for Tubman, a move green lighted by Jack Lew, Treasury ...

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Kathy Hochul's proposal to replace Robert Livingston's statue with one of Harriet ... to the budget bill, the commission will be tasked with selecting the design of the Tubman statue and ...

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 ...

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 photographed in 1877 ... family history with the transition from bondage to freedom." 90.5 WESA’s Bill O’Driscoll wrote about Fields-Black and “Combee” when the book ...

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 ...

Congresswoman Joyce Beatty erupted in a heated exchange with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over delays in the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, his alleged crypto ties to DOGE, and the impact of Trump ...