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," ...

Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures. Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. Every American seems to know the name and even story of ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bob the Drag Queen about his new book, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert," in which Tubman returns to life and wants to use hip-hop to spread her message. You can call ...

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 ...

National Book Award winner Tiya Miles has delivered an innovative vision of Harriet Tubman’s life in her groundbreaking biography “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People.” ...

Months before embarking on a journey to eventually become the most renowned “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman sought divine intervention. It was the winter of 1848-49, historian ...

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, ...