The city of Newark, New Jersey, will replace a monument of 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus with a statue depicting abolitionist and political activist Harriet Tubman, the city’s mayor announced.
“It’s important that our notes, our money … reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,” she said. “So we’re exploring ways to speed up that effort.”
The Office of Inspector General has confirmed that the Trump administration did not delay the release of the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, as was falsely speculated by the New York Times in June 2019.
Lucian K. Truscott IV, a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, has urged that the Washington, D.C., memorial honoring the third president be replaced with a statue to abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Actress Cynthia Erivo performed a show-stopping performance of the song “Stand Up” from the film Harriet which chronicles the story of Harriet Tubman.
If her story was fiction, no one would believe it. Harriet tells her story truthfully and tells it well.
Obama-era officials confirmed that the New York Times’ hit piece, which claimed that the Trump administration deliberately delayed the Harriet Tubman $20 for nefarious reasons, is indeed fake news, according to a recent report from the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump delivered a patriotic speech on American greatness at the Lincoln Memorial in honor of Independence Day and highlighted American achievements and honored past patriots, including Betsy Ross.
The New York Times is no longer the “paper of record,” according to Donald Trump Jr., who reacted to the paper’s latest fake news story in a tweet posted Saturday afternoon.
The U.S. Treasury is denying a piece from the New York Times which accused the Trump administration of delaying the release of the $20 Harriet Tubman bill and doing so for political reasons.
Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host and network legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s announcement delaying the redesign of the $20 bill to feature 19th-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman was the administration “dog-whistling” to President Donald Trump’s “base.”
Rapper Nicki Minaj appeared to compare herself to iconic abolitionist Harriet Tubman on Twitter and in a recent TMZ interview. “All the QUEENS I remember, SHOOK SHIT UP!!!!!!!! Queen of the week may go to HARRIET TUBMAN!!!!!! Had she just
Baltimore’s Democrat Mayor, Catherine Pugh, has once again eliminated Confederate history under cover of night, this time eliminating three Confederate monuments and renaming a park for hard-charging slavery icon Harriet Tubman.
Opinions on the Harriet Tubman $20 bill seem to be running generally positive, but there are some objections, beginning with a prominent self-professed fan of the portrait currently adorning the twenty, Donald Trump. “Andrew Jackson had a great history and I
Now that Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew has confirmed his agency’s decision to replace President Andrew Jackson with black Republican Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, the Obama administration is looking to place more leaders of the women’s suffrage movement onto the back of the $10 bill and plans to add black civil rights leaders onto the back of the $5 bill.
The Washington Post’s Wonkblog has elevated a new argument against putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her struggle against slavery: Tubman “fought the oppressive system that launched our economy” — i.e. slavery was capitalism.
Thursday on NBC’s “Today,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump weighed in on the federal government’s decision to remove former President Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill for abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Trump called Tubman “fantastic,” but described the decision as “pure
Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” former GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson weighed in on the Treasury Department’s decision to remove former President Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill for abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Carson sung the
Celebrities took to social media on Wednesday to celebrate after U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew decided to replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill with that of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has decided to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, making her the first woman on U.S. paper currency in 100 years, a Treasury official said Wednesday.
Allowing illegal alien “anchor babies” instant citizenship perverts the historical intent of the 14th Amendment and disparages the history of the black slaves it was originally intended to protect.
He was a slave owner, hostile to the forces of abolitionism that were rising in America. He imposed a cruel policy of Indian removal, forcing the tribes of the Southeast across a brutal march to the Oklahoma territory. He was a hot-headed general, quick to violence and known to overstep his legal bounds, as when he summarily executed two Britons for aiding the Indian enemy during the First Seminole War.
Twenty-nine “BlackLivesMatter” protesters were arrested this morning outside Boston as they blocked a major commuter highway into the city during morning rush hour. On I-93, they put their hands inside 50-gallon drums filled with cement and then handcuffed themselves together.
