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 ...

In a recent interview, filmmaker Charlyn Griffith-Oro of the short documentary “The Aunties” told the Amsterdam News, “This film came out of my observations of the aunties over the last almost decade.

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," ...

Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures. Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. Every American seems to know the name and even story of ...

An escaped slave who became one of the best-known "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom in the decade before the war. The Maryland native began her ...

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, ...