Harriet Tubman a true American heroine (FILM REVIEW: ‘HARRIET’)
October 17, 2019
“HARRIET” directed by Kasi Lemmons a “must-see” cinematic experience
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$20 bill
U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman
June 13, 2019
In the fantasy of White supremacy, traitors like Jefferson Davis and other Confederates are memorialized for being freedom fighters — the freedom of whites to own black human beings and work them to death — while a woman who risked her life time and again to free enslaved people is simply dismissed. Ignored. Erased.
Hamilton stays on $10 bill; Tubman goes on $20
April 28, 2016
The leader of the Underground Railroad will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president and a slave owner, who will be pushed to the back of the bill