"Harriet Tubman: Love Slave" follows a bad pattern of folks taking her name and image and demeaning it.

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...

Most crucial, however, is the film’s approach to black women’s liberation. Unlike recent films set in the antebellum period that center black bondsmen (“The Birth of a Nation” in 2016, “12 Years a ...

It’s just in the past 10 years that American movies have come to terms with slavery as an unalloyed evil. So it’s only now, after 100 years of feature films and a century and a half since the end of ...

Seeing as it’s 2019, it’s really about time that a movie about Harriet Tubman was made. Most people only know Harriet Tubman for her role as a conductor of the Underground Railroad, but as “Harriet,” ...

British actress Cynthia Erivo, who stars in the new film "Harriet," hopes she won't be the last to play the famous Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman on a big screen. Responding to ...

A visit to Auburn, New York, reveals Harriet Tubman's life after the Underground Railroad-as a landowner, community leader, and advocate in her final 50 years.

Costume designer Paul Tazewell won a Tony Award for dressing Alexander Hamilton and his fellow Founding Fathers in their 18th-century garbs for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. His follow-up is a more ...