The Latest Breaking News from Harriet Tubman

It’s been 60 years since Bessie Bordenave graduated from the Harriet Tubman School in Columbia, Maryland, the place still feels like a part of her.

The tale of a wooden puppet who dreams of being a real boy has been re-made into a live-action extravaganza - but is it any good?

PHILADELPHIA — Mayor Jim Kenney and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy have withdrawn the $500,000 no-bid commission for a new Harriet Tubman statue and will now open the process for other artists.

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s controversy over awarding a direct commission for a permanent Harriet Tubman monument has aroused widespread national interest and a split among the city’s own statue advisory committee.

PHILADELPHIA — The city of Philadelphia wants people to help shape the theme of a permanent Harriet Tubman statue by responding to a public input survey by July 13. But a number of Black artists and historians are criticizing the process as being unfair and insulting.

The M.E.N's Jenna Campbell visits the Poynton café making a real difference

A 1942 classroom with old-style wooden desks, a chalkboard, and a large, blown-up grade-school class photo showing Charles L. Blockson, one of only a handful of Black children in a predominantly white group, greets you early in the exhibition.

They had walked several miles that last Saturday in May when a woman dressed as Harriet Tubman approached.

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry and Liz Phair are two names you’d never expect to hear mentioned in a Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway show marketed as a “big, Black, queer-ass American musical.”

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had difficulty reading. However, her mother disagreed. When I asked her why, she explained that she, too, was identified…