Mrs. Joanna Eva Coleman George, 104 today, sports a red bonnet and a coral and blue floral morning robe, as her nurse, Josephine, wheels her into the elegant living room at her daughter's Hotel Africa ...

Auburn, N.Y. — The great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman has died this week in Auburn, church officials said. Pauline Copes Johnson was 98 years old when she died, the Harriet Tubman Memorial ...

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park is the “must go” trip to add to your travel agenda. The Tubman site originally opened in March 2017, in Church Creek, Md. through a ...

A new historical marker honoring Harriet Tubman was unveiled in Maryland on September 17, 2025. The updated sign corrects inaccuracies about Tubman's birthplace and the number of people she freed.

Stephen Towns, "Wade in the Water" (2020), natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, crystal glass beads (photo courtesy the Gibbes Museum of Art; all other photos Megan ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - On the 176th anniversary of her first attempt to escape slavery, Harriet Tubman’s descendants joined state and local leaders Wednesday afternoon to unveil a new historical marker ...

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 ...

Harriet Tubman photographed in 1877, 14 years after the Combahee River Raid. Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her ...

CAMBRIDGE — Following the removal and restoration of Harriet Tubman content from the National Park Service’s webpage about the Underground Railroad, the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in ...

There’s not a whole lot that doesn’t disgust me these days about how the Trump Administration is shifting Black folks' role in American history. I’ve come to expect the worst, daily, when it comes to ...

Harriet Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece is speaking out after the National Park Service downplayed the Underground Railroad on its website Harriet Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece is ...

Wesley Wofford’s sculpture, Harriet Tubman —The Beacon of Hope, symbolizes the legacy of the American icon. Douglas R. Clifford is a staff photographer. Reach him at [email protected]. The words ...