harriet tubman
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An Open Letter From Harriet Tubman Asking You to Keep Her Name Out Your Mouth
Hey y’all, I was just chilling in the great cookout in the sky playing spades with Sojourner about to run a dime on Frederick Douglass and Richard Pryor when my Google Alert went off. (We have pretty good wi-fi up here.) Once again I heard someone down there mention my name, comparing themselves to me.…
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Not a Good Look? Nicki Minaj Reportedly Splits with Longtime Hairstylist Kim Kimble and Glam Squad
The rumors began swirling when Minaj posted a video to social media earlier this week.
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Section of Baltimore Park, Once the Site of Trash Confederate Statues, Now Renamed After Harriet Tubman
It’s never going to be a bad decision to rename something after renowned badass and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman. And following that school of thought, a section of a Baltimore park that was once the location of some loser statues has been renamed after the iconic abolitionist. According to CBS Baltimore, the…
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GirlTrek Takes Over The Root’s Instagram and Walks the Underground Railroad in #HarrietsGreatEscape
She was and continues to be our Moses. Harriet Tubman, the ultimate freedom fighter and warrior woman—before we even heard of a Dora Milaje—was liberating enslaved black folks through the Underground Railroad for years in a holy act of selflessness and courage. In honor of Tubman, GirlTrek, the largest national public health nonprofit and movement…
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Library of Congress Reveals Previously Unknown Portrait of Harriet Tubman in New, Digitized Album
It’s Harriet Tubman, the world’s No. 1 certified badass, as you’ve never seen her before. On Tuesday the Library of Congress announced that it had conserved and digitized a previously unknown portrait of the famed abolitionist and “conductor” of the Underground Railroad as part of an album to be exhibited in the Smithsonian’s National Museum…
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Yes, There Was Slavery in New York, and a NYC College Has Compiled a Free, Searchable Database From That Terrible Time
For those African Americans who are desperately trying to trace their lineage, or for those history buffs who want to explore this country’s vast legacy of slavery, there is now the first-ever index of those enslaved in New York state dating to as early as 1525 and ending around the Civil War. The John Jay…
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They Continue to Disparage Harriet Tubman, but There’s a Remedy for That
Not enough can be said about the queen Harriet Tubman. She is our black Moses. Freedom fighter. Union spy. Brilliant strategist. Abolitionist. God-fearing woman. Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Gangsta in the way that gangsta should be: warring against those who seek to oppress. So of course, Donald Trump and his ball-less, soulless Treasury Secretary…
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#SaveUnderground: Aisha Hinds on Freedom Dreams and Revolutionary Art
Last week, WGN America announced that it had canceled the critically acclaimed and riveting historical drama Underground. Allegedly moving in a more conservative, programming direction, the network is leaving behind a show that introduced millions of viewers to the relatively unknown network. As the cast and crew confirmed and responded to the news, outraged fans—#TeamNoalee,…
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Reveals Plans for Rare Harriet Tubman Photo
Call her Moses or call her Minty. Just know when you call her, you headed for freedom. We are speaking, of course, of the great Harriet Tubman, fierce conductor of the Underground Railroad, Union spy and American hero, whose life story has had a resurgence in light of her replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20…
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Underground Season 2 Episode 9 Recap
“A sense of safety transforms the spirit.” —- Georgia We return to the safe house and how come we haven’t seen the other ladies of the sewing circle in like a month of Sundays? If you recall from last week’s episode, Cato was taken in as a runaway slave and he’s there as a stowaway…