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," ...

A statue of Harriet Tubman was installed at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid earlier this week and will be unveiled at 2 pm on Friday. Tubman helped dozens of Black people escape slavery. During her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, standing with her hands resting on the back of an upholstered chair and facing the camera ...

A contest is underway to select the quote that will appear on the soon-to-be-installed Harriet Tubman statue in Center City. In February, Philadelphia officials released an open call asking for an ...

Harriet Tubman, a revered abolitionist and the first woman to lead an American military action during wartime was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general on Monday. On Veteran’s Day, a ...

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 ...

CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.

With Juneteenth just behind us, theGrio is taking a look back at the figures that made the day possible. The video above explains the powerful life of Harriet Tubman and the following is a transcript ...

WASHINGTON -- A National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad has been restored to its original state months after it was changed to remove abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman from the ...

Last year, the city of Philadelphia found itself under fire when it announced plans to erect a Harriet Tubman monument designed by Wesley Wofford, a white male artist selected without an open call for ...

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, ...