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“It’s so much bigger than a performance,” Aisha Hinds says through tears to a circle of women journalists at the tail-end of a conference call. It’s less than a week before her historic embodiment of the iconic Harriet Tubman in an unprecedented one-hour episode of Underground.

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

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

Move over Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. Treasury plans to add a woman on the $10 bill beginning in 2020, reports USA Today. And Jack Lew,…

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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…

President Barack Obama has used the second term of his presidency to make a series of moves that have figured prominently in defining the African-American…

WASHINGTON-Allen West the Tea Party affiliated Republican congressman from Florida compared himself to abolitionist Harriet Tubman and the Democratic Party to the “plantation” in a recent interview with Fox News. Fellow Black Republican, Herman Cain has also compared the Democratic Party to a plantation. The Huffington Post Reports “So I’m here as the modern day […]