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Harriet Tubman
Decade-long effort: Previous attempts to have Tubman memorialized on the $20 dollar bill have stalled in Congress. The new ...
On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches
The latest measure, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, follows years of delays and efforts to have Harriet Tubman replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
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On Harriet Tubman Day, a new effort to place the abolitionist on the $20 bill launches
Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who will introduce the bill, says images ... Harriet Tubman is nothing short of an American icon," Shaheen tells NPR. "Women and girls, especially communities of color ...
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New doc features older Black gay women farming Harriet Tubman’s ancestral lands
The film was executive-produced by the Center for Cultural Power and its distribution is supported by the Queer Women of Color in Media ... from an 1854 letter Harriet Tubman wrote to her brothers.
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Lencia Kebede becomes first full-time Black Elphaba in Broadway’s ‘Wicked’
Broadway has apparently taken a color-conscience cue from Hollywood ... She was first recognized for her work as Harriet Tubman in 2019’s “Harriet.” Before the follow-up, “Wicked: For ...