The Underground Railroad conductor’s understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety Liza Weisstuch Harriet Tubman successfully ...

'Harriet' follows Harriet Tubman as she escapes slavery and goes on to lead the Underground Railroad. How accurate are the characters to real life? By Umber Bhatti Kasi Lemmons’ Harriet — the first ...

In 1964, there were two girl sleuths on American bookshelves. Nancy Drew, with her sweater sets and best chums, and Harriet M. Welsch, who wrote things like this in her precious spy notebook: "MY ...

Rita Daniels didn't always know she was the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman. In fact, a 9-year-old Daniels had no idea they were related when her teacher assigned her a book report on ...

You haven't seen Harriet Tubman like this. In the new film “Harriet,” in theaters Friday, expect a young, fiery depiction of the American icon, who escaped slavery only to return to the South ...

Brittney Cooper is a professor at Rutgers University and the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era ...

On Wednesday, the United States Treasury confirmed that Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill and the internet responded with some historically great memes.

To say Harriet Charity Verney marches to the beat of her own drum is an understatement. In the midst of Britain's ever-churning (and seemingly endless) pool of ultracool It chicks, this spitfire bon ...

I don’t have any tomatoes and it’s a crisis. Well, that’s not exactly true — at least the former part isn’t. I’m specifically out of red globe tomatoes. In a frantic search through my kitchen and ...

Harriet Richardson is not an angry person. Except, it seems, when it comes to art. “You could draw a line through most of my projects and find them founded in anger. Revenge. Fury.” It was during her ...

As Cynthia Erivo becomes a formidable Oscar contender for best actress and original song for her performance in the title role in “Harriet,” one thing remains clear: Diversity is good business. In ...