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," ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — As the New Haven Museum celebrates the Connecticut Freedom Trail throughout September, University of Connecticut professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her studies of ...

DORCHESTER CO., Md. - One of the most well-known figures of the Underground Railroad has deep roots right here on the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County in 1822, ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) — Freedom Day celebrates the history and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the African American community’s contribution to labor and development of historic Mitchelville, ...

John Dunphy Telegraph readers will recall that just last month I was privileged to meet and talk with President Thomas Jefferson, thanks to Colonial Williamsburg reenactor Kurt Smith. Last Sunday, I ...

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 ...

Hip-hop artist, poet, and author Andre Saunders’ words extolling Harriet Tubman’s legacy will now live in perpetuity on the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A new exhibition on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston honors work detailing Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid. The “Picturing Freedom: ...

Philadelphians voted on the quote to accompany the Harriett Tubman statue at City Hall, Philly’s only statue of a historic Black woman.

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 ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...