harriet tubman

:salute: When John Shackelford discovered cycling an entirely new world opened up to him. The freedom that came with it empowered him to access opportunities and a future he’d never dreamed of before. As for many of us, 2020 has made him reconsider where Black people have come from and where...

Just got back from it. Saw it for free. There were 13 people in the theater. 3 of those were white. I thought the movie was very elementary. Amateurish really. It seemed to be done by a very skilled college group with a great budget. The lead actress wasn't a strong enough lead for a gritty...

From TMZ: David Oyelowo has no issue with a black, British actress playing an iconic African-American like Harriet Tubman -- despite lacking roots to American slavery -- because acting is acting. Yes, you could say the British actor was just defending the home team, but the discussion about...

“Uncivil,” an excellent new podcast about the Civil War hosted by Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika, begins with a visit this summer to a controversial statue. It doesn’t involve Robert E. Lee or the Confederate flag, they tell us: it’s the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., which was...

A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park's Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken) Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, who herself escaped brutal slave owners in 1849, will become the first woman and first...