After a white sculptor’s work depicting Harriet Tubman received rave reviews, Philadelphia hired him to do another piece that would be on permanent display. But after complaints that the artist should ...

Yusuf Shabazz rode his bicycle up to Newark’s Harriet Tubman monument and tenderly ran his fingers over the sculpted image of the revered abolitionist’s face. “I’m inspired by it,” Shabazz, 61, of ...

Before Jeannine A. Cook was the owner and curator of Harriett's Bookshop, she was a voracious reader. Cook was the little girl who read the Bible with her sister by candlelight, the student who ...

Harriet Tubman has a worthy star to help bring her story to the big screen. The Color Purple actress Cynthia Erivo is to play the famed slave, army spy and abolitionist in a forthcoming biopic.