PHILADELPHIA FIRES WHITE HARRIET TUBMAN SCULPTOR FOR BEING WHITE
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outkick.com ^
| August 30, 2023 | BOBBY BURACK
A year ago, the city of Philadelphia selected an artist to design a statue of Harriet Tubman that would stand in front of City Hall. However, the sculptor, Wesley Wofford, was unable to complete the statue. The
city fired him shortly after his selection. Philadelphia fired him for being white. According to the New York Times, “incensed artists and community members argued that the city should have used a public selection process rather than awarding a commission, in part because the artist Philadelphia had selected was a white man.” The critics demanded Philadelphia find a black sculptor instead, no matter...
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Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad Has Gone Gay
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You Tube ^
| 6/22/23 | Ruined Leon
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VIDEO: Newark Unveils Harriet Tubman Monument Replacing Christopher Columbus
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Breitbart ^
| 03-13-2023 | Amy Furr
A monument to abolitionist Harriet Tubman was revealed Thursday in Newark, New Jersey, after a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus was removed. “The
city, which is now 48% Black and 37% Latino, according to the U.S. Census, was a known stop along the Underground Railroad, which was a network of routes escaped slaves followed to find freedom in states that had abolished slavery,” NBC News reported Friday. The current monument stands in place of the Columbus statue removed during the George Floyd riots that erupted in 2020, per Reuters:
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Get Back To Basics: 1. Beautiful Becky Spelman Playing Catch With A Dog. 2. Harriet Tubman's Wisdom For Freedom. (Not Joe Biden's Ever Ballooning Debt.)
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https :// freedom - demokrasi - and - civilised - humanity . com / ^
| 10th March, 2023 | Ozguy1945
Westerners need to get back to basics. It's
cheaper. A beautiful woman having fun playing catch with a dog. (Click red link below title above.) Absorbing wisdom of great Americans like Harriett Tubman, who passed away 110 years ago today, March 10. (“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”) The West does NOT need a president like Biden who coul take U.S. national debt to $51 trillion by 2033:...
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Harriet Tubman Honored With Statue Of Her Left Big Toe
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The Babylon Bee ^
| January 16, 2023 | The Babylon Bee
AUBURN, NY — Following the new tradition of erecting disturbing modern-art monuments for prominent historical figures, the city of Auburn has unveiled a bronze statue of abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman's left big toe. "We
felt that this was a fitting tribute for the great Harriet Tubman," said Brandon Quezada, chairman of the city's Artistic Initiatives Committee. "Knowing that Boston was unveiling the unspeakably creepy ‘The Embrace' statue for Dr. Martin Luther King that bears a striking resemblance to various human organs mashed together in an ungodly chimeric abomination from the pit of hell, creating a monument depicting...
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Biden Pushing Forward With Plan to Replace Andrew Jackson With Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill
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MenRec ^
| 01/29/21 | Rusty
The Biden administration is moving forward with a plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with an image of Harriet Tubman. The decision to use Tubman’s likeness was initially made by the Obama administration in 2016, but had been delayed by former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin under
President Trump. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the Treasury Department would engage in the necessary steps to place Tubman on the currency, removing Jackson from the front of the note where he has appeared since 1928. “The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to...
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Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill Is Not a Sign of Progress. It's a Sign of Disrespect
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Time ^
| Jan. 27, 2021 | Brittney Cooper
The Biden Administration announced its plan to return to an Obama-era initiative to put Harriet Tubman’s face on the U.S. $20 bill. Her
image would replace Andrew Jackson, the notoriously racist President, known both for owning hundreds of slaves and for his brutal and genocidal policy of Indian removal. Based on current designs, a statue of Jackson would remain on the back of the bill, while Harriet Tubman would grace the front. Many Americans, across the racial spectrum, are excited about this tribute to Tubman.~~~SNIP~~~Putting Tubman on legal tender, when slaves in the U.S. were treated as fungible commodities is...
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Impeach Harriet Tubman
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Red State.com ^
| January 26, 2021 | Robert A. Hahn
Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, Democrats are once again on the march, this time to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. They
don’t actually know very much about Harriet Tubman, but she was Black, and Democrats desperately want to put somebody Black on our money. So here she comes. I say they don’t know very much about Ms. Tubman because Democrats announced this on the same day that Democrats sent a procession of House Managers over to the Senate to deliver an Article of Impeachment against former President Trump. They are charging him with...
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Joe Biden Wants to Speed Up Replacing Andrew Jackson on $20 Bill with Harriet Tubman
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Breitbart ^
| 1/25/2021 | CHARLIE SPIERING
President Joe Biden’s administration will try to speed up the effort to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, the White House said Monday.
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Kanye West Breaks Down, Makes Dubious Claim About Harriet Tubman at South Carolina Rally
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Variety via Yahoooooo news ^
| July 19, 2020 | Jem Aswad
Kanye West Breaks Down, Makes Dubious Claim About Harriet Tubman at South Carolina Rally Variety Jem Aswad VarietyJuly 19, 2020 Click here to read the full article. Kanye
West broke down in tears, made an outrageous claim about abolitionist Harriet Tubman, had a heckler ejected and claimed his brain was too big for his skull on Sunday at the first campaign event for his bewildering presidential run. “Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves, she just had them work for other white people,” he said at one point in a rambling speech that bounded from one topic to another with...
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Trump Right to Honor Harriet Tubman, a Black Gun-Toting Republican Who Freed Democrats’ Slaves
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Noisy Room ^
| July 6, 2020 | Daniel John Sobieski
President Trump concluded his Friday night Mount Rushmore speech by announcing the signing of an executive order creating a “National Garden of American Heroes” in which the statues of those anarchists would consign to the ash heap of history would reside to remind future generations of how we became who and what
we are, to remind us of the struggle against tyranny and injustice. Trump righteously stood before the visages of the likes of Thomas Jefferson, the maligned slave-owner who helped create a nation and a process that would end slavery. He stood before the face of Abraham Lincoln, the...
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HARRIET TUBMAN
BANK PREZ STANDS BY DEBIT CARD DESIGN
'We Are Unapologetically Black'
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TMZ ^
| 2/14/2019 | tmz
1:45 PM PT -- OneUnited Bank prez and chief operating officer Teri Williams is doubling down and standing firm behind the Harriet Tubman debit card. She
tells TMZ the bank is "unapologetically black." What's more ... Williams says the debit card design had been in the works since 2016.
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Julia Roberts was suggested to play Harriet Tubman by studio exec, says Harriet screenwriter
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Entertainment Weekly ^
| November 19, 2019 | Rachel Yang
If you were to think of the most out-of-left-field actress to play Harriet Tubman in a movie, you still wouldn’t stumble upon the person one executive allegedly suggested. Harriet,
the historical drama based on Tubman’s life released earlier this month, stars Cynthia Erivo. But the film’s screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, says when he first started working on the movie in 1994 that one studio executive suggested Julia Roberts to portray the legendary slave turned abolitionist. Yes, that Julia Roberts. In a Q&A with Allen published earlier this month by Harriet studio Focus Features (and reiterated in an L.A....
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Harriet Tubman won’t be featured on the $20 bill until 2028: Mnuchin
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NYPost ^
| May 22, 2019
Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman won’t appear on US currency for nearly a decade, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday. An image of Tubman, a former slave who helped others escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, was supposed to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill next year. “The
primary reason we’ve looked at redesigning the $20 bill is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said in front of Congress on Wednesday. “Based upon this, the new $20 bill will now not come out until 2028,” he added. President Trump criticized the plan to replace Jackson on the note during the...
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Former Confederate site rededicated to Harriet Tubman
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FoxNews ^
| 3-11-2018 | Staff
A space at a Baltimore park that had long honored two Confederate generals has been rededicated to abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Baltimore Sun reports that hundreds of people gathered Saturday for the ceremony at Wyman Park Dell. The ceremony took place just feet from the now-empty pedestal where a large statue of
Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson once stood. The statue was removed in August after a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia reignited the national debate over what to do with symbols of the Confederacy. Saturday was the 105th anniversary of Tubman's death. The space...
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Trump Administration Scrapping Plan To Put Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill?
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Outside the Beltway ^
| Friday, September 1, 2017 | Doug Mataconis
Three years ago, reports began to circulate that the Obama Treasury Department was considering redesigning American currency by placing a woman on the $10 bill in place of Alexander Hamilton, the First Treasury Secretary who had also served as a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and an aide to George Washington
during the American Revolution. Thanks in no small part to the popularity of the Broadway musical Hamilton, the plan to replace Hamilton was scrapped and it was announced that the abolitionist and founder of the Underground Railroad that led escaped slaves to freedom in the 19th Century would...
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Mnuchin won’t say if he wants Tubman on $20 bill
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San Jose Mercury-News ^
| August 31, 2017 | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is raising speculation that Harriet Tubman’s future on the $20 bill could be in jeopardy. In
a CNBC interview, Mnuchin on Thursday avoided a direct answer when asked whether he supported the decision made by the Obama administration to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Tubman, the 19th century African-American abolitionist who was a leader in the Underground Railroad. “People have been on the bills for a long period of time,” he said. “This is something we’ll consider. Right now, we have a lot more important issues to focus on.”
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Harriet Tubman may not be on $20 bill after all
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ABC News ^
| August 31, 2017 | The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is raising speculation that Harriet Tubman's future on the $20 bill could be in jeopardy. Mnuchin
is avoiding a direct answer when asked whether he supports the decision made by the Obama administration to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, the 19th century African-American abolitionist famous for the Underground Railroad. During last year's campaign, Donald Trump praised Jackson, the nation's seventh president, for his "history of tremendous success" and said the decision to replace him with Tubman was "pure political correctness."
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A Trump presidency could mean we never get those epic $20 bills featuring Harriet Tubman
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Fusion ^
| 12/07/2016 | Charles Pulliam-Moore
Harriet Tubman, the sword-wielding, gun-toting spy and freedom fighter who led dozens of slaves to freedom in the north after escaping from slavery herself is set to become the first black woman to be featured on American currency—specifically, the $20 bill. According
to a new report from TIME, however, the impending inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump and the administrative changes that will come along with it have some within the Department of the Treasury concerned about the future of the new legal tender.
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The Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Could Make an Early Debut
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TIME ^
| December 7, 2016 | Maya Rhodan
U.S. government officials say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew could release early images of redesigned $5, $10 and $20 bills in an effort to pressure the Trump Administration away from reversing their plans. . . . ...in the throes of the primary election, Trump called the move “pure political correctness” and suggested moving
Tubman to a lower denomination like the $2 bill. “Andrew Jackson had a great history. I think it’s very rough when you take somebody off the bill,” Trump said last spring.
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