The Latest Breaking News from Harriet Tubman

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry and Liz Phair are two names you’d never expect to hear mentioned in a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show marketed as a “big, Black, queer-ass American musical.”

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had difficulty reading. However, her mother disagreed. When I asked her why, she explained that she, too, was identified…

The wind was whipping, and the sun was still bright when Ken Johnston and Deborah Price started a 165-mile "Walk to Freedom" from the beach at Cape May, New Jersey, at the Sunset Pavilion Saturday afternoon.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Colin Powell and Harriet Tubman are among 87 candidates who have made the cut for the renaming of nine military installations that honor Confederate figures, including Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia.

On Thursday, about a dozen demonstrators gathered in the east Chatham neighborhood to honor Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday and to draw attention to missing Black women and girls.

On Thursday, community-based organization Kidz Korna will join women worldwide in a demonstration commemorating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday and the scores of missing Black women and girls.

A school on Chicago's North Side has joined the growing list of educational establishments to be named after abolitionist and civil rights activist Harriet Tubman

Before she became the historic hero known as Harriet Tubman, Araminta Ross was born in early 1822 near Cambridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Some 200 years later, she is celebrated as a global icon of freedom.