Trail of Tears

Biden Administration in Push to Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentFebruary 4, 2021

In April 2016, then-President Barack Obama announced that Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Obama wanted the release of the new bill to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment in 2020 that gave women the right to vote. However, Trump had expressed an affinity toward Confederate figures and sang the praises of Andrew Jackson, claiming that he had led the U.S. to great success during his two-terms in office from 1829 to 1837.

History News

400 Years in Virginia. 500 Years in Slavery.

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentSeptember 6, 2019

Indeed, “the slave trade began in the 15th century,” said Boniface Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe in 2007, when he was the acting president of the United Nations General Assembly. Chidyausiku made the remarks during the UN’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the end of the transatlantic slave trade. “It was driven by colonial expansion, emerging capitalist economies and the insatiable demand for commodities – with racism and discrimination serving to legitimize the trade,” said Chidyausiku.

Opinion

U.S. Attempt to Erase Harriet Tubman

A. Scott Bolden, NNPA Newswire ContributorJune 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.