Bob the Drag Queen has brought Harriet Tubman back to life with urgency and humor in their new book, Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert. Bob spoke with Blavity ahead of the book’s March 25 release about ...

Bob, you have many titles: actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, master of ceremonies, Drag Race royalty, a Traitor, and now you get to add author to it too. What inspired you to write a novel? And is ...

“The Journey to Freedom,” photographed on April 23, 2025, memorializes the legacy of Harriet Tubman, who famously led dozens of slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Li Khan ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. National Book Award-winning author Tiya Miles explores the history and mythology of a remarkable woman in "Night Flyer: ...

In the spring of last year, I traveled down to Green Pond, S.C., where I grew up, to hear a historian talk about her new book. I don’t usually make three-hour drives for history lectures, but the ...