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via BlackAmericaWeb: One of our Greatest Legends willbe coming to the big screen..The trailer for the up-coming Harriet Tubman Movis has been released. Cynthia Erivo will be playing the lead roll and is joined by Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Janelle Monáe, Joe Alwyn, Jennifer Nettles and Clarke Peters. Take a look of a few of these […]

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via BCNN1/The Hill, by Aris Folley: A newly discovered photo of Harriet Tubman, the African American abolitionist who led numerous people out of slavery, has gone on display for the first time in Washington, D.C. The photograph on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is believed to be the […]

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via CBSNews Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin suggested Thursday that the Trump administration could renege on an earlier plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. “Ultimately we will be looking at this issue. It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment,” said Mnuchin in an interview on CNBC. Mnuchin made clear that the plan […]

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An album containing a rare photograph of 19th century abolitionist and Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman was sold Thursday at a New York City auction for $161,000 — far exceeding presale estimates. Swann Galleries said the circa late 1860s image and other items in the album sold for a hammer price of $130,000, plus a […]

The opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington is just days away and it still needs your help.

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A movie about iconic abolitionist Harriet Tubman is in development from “Homeland” director Seith Mann. The project has a working title of “Harriet.” Tubman was born into slavery, escaped in 1849 and made more than a dozen missions to rescue about 70 slaves though the Underground Railroad. She served as a spy for the Union Army […]

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“I love it,” Oprah Winfrey shouted, pumping her fist in the air. There was no mistaking her feelings about Harriet Tubman being selected as the next face of the $20 dollar bill. “That was my first choice. My second choice was Sojourner Truth,” Winfrey told The Associated Press Wednesday on the red carpet for her […]

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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will announce Wednesday that Harriet Tubman will replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Politico and Bloombergreported. Lew is also expected to announce that leaders of the movement to give women the right to vote will be on the back of the $10 bill. Alexander Hamilton will remain the […]

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Your potential replacement for Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill: Harriet Tubman http://t.co/4Mwo0A1h6vpic.twitter.com/hOuDuEFkQH — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 12, 2015 The face of revered abolitionist Harriet…

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Oscar-nominated actress Viola Davis will play Harriet Tubman in an HBO Films and Amblin TV production, EW has confirmed. The untitled project is based on Kate Clifford Larson’s book Bound for the Promised Land, the 2003 biographic novel on the Civil War-era abolitionist and prominent Underground Railroad worker. Deadline first reported the news. This is […]