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," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, standing with her hands resting on the back of an upholstered chair and facing the camera ...

Few figures in American history have the legacy of Harriet Tubman. Her life has come to represent courage, faith, and an unwavering commitment to freedom. Born into slavery in the early nineteenth ...

A monument honoring Harriet Tubman was unveiled in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday – in the same spot that a statue of Christopher Columbus once stood. "Shadow of a Face" is a towering wood and metal ...

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 ...

Last year, the city of Philadelphia found itself under fire when it announced plans to erect a Harriet Tubman monument designed by Wesley Wofford, a white male artist selected without an open call for ...

In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to give the signal to the enslaved people hiding ashore. When the boats ...

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 ...

Screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard says a studio executive seriously suggested Roberts for the role during a 1994 meeting.

Stephen Towns, "Wade in the Water" (2020), natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, crystal glass beads (photo courtesy the Gibbes Museum of Art; all other photos Megan ...

On these historic grounds, you'll see a 9 foot bronze "Journey to Freedom" statue which shows Harriet Tubman leading a child ...

Guidelines for the art contest, sponsored by the group Freedom 250, include material about abolitionists and civil rights leaders, but little mention of what they fought against. By Jennifer ...