you know about harriet tubman. but it's in many ways a limited notion of harriet tubman. and one of the goals of this book is to recast her in a much longer historic perspective. what phil was hinting at, that harriet tubman, born in 1822 to the first presidents. we're still alive. when she died in 1930. ronald reagan had been born. so she touched three centuries of american life and not one single day. and that entire time. did she ever have full democracy? so i wanted to frame her along those lines, but also in terms of the life she lived after. how most of us know her? so she's known as she escaped slavery. in 1847. very quickly decided that she was going to go back and rescue family and friends and had made these daring trips, usually in the middle of winter, because that was one of the safest and would brought people out. and that's generally how she's been seen. there's some knowledge that she was part of the civil war, but can frozen and films that have been made about her. there was a film made about her with cicely tyson many, many years ago. there's a film that

a few years ago show that harriet tubman, not only fled on foot, but she fled across water and. she fled aboard ships that were operated by men, african-american men were seamen aboard the and they called them blackjacks. and these men were operating schooners, prima traveling, transporting goods from point to the other. and that brings to another point i wanted to mention, and that is the predominance of african-american men in the maritime industry. we know that many african american men were oyster women were fishermen, but they also seamen. there worked aboard these ships, helping to transport goods back and forth or loading them from the on and off the ships at the docks. men such as crispus attucks. but others were actually also pilots as as ships captains. stewart working aboard both schooners and steamships and some of them actually owned their own schooners. you had african-american men who were ferryman because along the eastern seaboard. there were so many rivers and streams and creeks and so forth that ferries were a constant necessity as. people travel back and fort

she called her project the tubman travel project and says she calls it that because after harriet tubmanourse, because of the routes taken by people who need abortions out of states where it band and into states that are legal remind her of the states -- of the routes taken by people fleeing slavery. i want to be careful here, of course there is no, you can't draw a parallel to american chattel slavery, but these are her words. she is a black woman. she understands the risk of criminalization for her is ever present. as for many people of color in this country. and she's willing to take on the risk on these trips. what she does, one day a week she goes to an airport in north texas and meets a group of strangers. all of them need abortions. some of them are teenagers. some are moms who have teenagers at home. some of them are rape victims. some are people who just need the abortion care and have to leave their families, their jobs and lives for a day to make this trip because abortion is no longer legal in their state. they board the plane with reverend ferguson and the first thing she do

but harriet tubman is remedies actually worked. and she began to disseminate a lot of those remedies wherever she went as a nurse. history and jim downes, who wrote a book and if you've never read it, get it. it's called sick from freedom african illness and suffering during the civil and reconstruction. he highlights the challenges that many of these freedom seekers had during this particular and contrasted them with trials were faced by earlier escape, as he said, those fleeing from slavery to union lines fell within. none of the recognized categories that people were accustomed to dealing with. gunshot for example, dysentery, smallpox, pox, pneumonia. instead many of these people were living polluted conditions because these were makeshift camps. so you might have a stream, but then everything goes in that water and people are drinking from contaminated water. or there's not enough food not enough clothing. you know, most enslaved people received two changes of clothes per year. that was it just to you know, we a lot of mytholog

but harriet tubman is remedies actually worked. and she began to disseminate a lot of those remedies wherever she went as a nurse. history and jim downes, who wrote a book and if you've never read it, get it. it's called sick from freedom african illness and suffering during the civil and reconstruction. he highlights the challenges that many of these freedom seekers had during this particular and contrasted them with trials were faced by earlier escape, as he said, those fleeing from slavery to union lines fell within. none of the recognized categories that people were accustomed to dealing with. gunshot for example, dysentery, smallpox, pox, pneumonia. instead many of these people were living polluted conditions because these were makeshift camps. so you might have a stream, but then everything goes in that water and people are drinking from contaminated water. or there's not enough food not enough clothing. you know, most enslaved people received two changes of clothes per year. that was it just to you know, we a lot of mytholog

what write in the popular biography of harriet tubman. and so the influence is there. but we know that harriet tubman been trying trying until her senior years to get her husband's pension. and that doesn't happen until decades after the civil war. right. that stretches into the early 20th century. and so this what i meant when i talked about that, you know, to borrow sadie hartmann's term, the afterlife of slavery the afterlife of the civil war, what does that mean for those people directly and the pension? but it's a really rich sources for for us about that and not just i mean really quickly and echo that point civil war and i'll add that civil war deaths. right people that die of conditions contracted or suffered during the civil war don't stop in 65. they continue on into the hundreds. and so i believe in a very long civil war in medicine. and so i think the record, particularly the pension records, reflect that. there's also a that's been done, again, by economists, so by other scholars that are interested in civil war, that shows that using pension records, that

she called her project the tubman travel project and says she calls it that because after harriet tubmanof course, because of the routes taken by people who need abortions out of states where it band and into states that are legal remind her of the states -- of the routes taken by people fleeing slavery. i want to be careful here, of course there is no, you can't draw a parallel to american chattel slavery, but these are her words. she is a black woman. she understands the risk of criminalization for her is ever present. as for many people of color in this country. and she's willing to take on the risk on these trips. what she does, one day a week she goes to an airport in north texas and meets a group of strangers. all of them need abortions. some of them are teenagers. some are moms who have teenagers at home. some of them are rape victims. some are people who just need the abortion care and have to leave their families, their jobs and lives for a day to make this trip because abortion is no longer legal in their state. they board the plane with reverend ferguson and the first thing sh

and then harriet tubman was called moses.lace, go this way," and all that kind of thing. so a church was in the background. rasool: what do you think was the mood like? diane: i would think that people were very exuberant, you know? because this was the first time they found out that they were free. in fact, it's said that for that 4th of july, it was the black people that celebrated in 1865, because others considered that's part of the union. rasool: that is really interesting. so, like, 4th of july, 1865, as they say, it hit different. diane: it hit differently. ♪ freedom is the only thing i need ♪ ♪ freedom the only thing i need indeed ♪ ♪ freedom come and fill me with your truth ♪ ♪ come and let your light shine through on me ♪ rasool: after 246 years, and generations of families living their whole lives in bondage, the institution of slavery came to an end and the new chapter in the american story began. ♪ i am free indeed ♪ sharon: what next? generations of people have been enslaved. they had no agency over themselves.

it's called a come back, which means protect to in the tubman language. the futuristic city is designed for $70000.00 people and includes solar power, electric buses, and smart houses. $3000000000.00 development is meant to be a model for other to city. alexis depressed sort of design is head of greece, is a position to reach the body, offers the feet in sundays election. citrus said a new cycle must begin, and the perform of the potty is necessary. suppressed was prime minister from 2015 to 20. 19. it was an outspoken critic of austerity during the debt crisis, but it was late to criticize for accepting pain up to now teams assigned to a sub detected continuous ultra low frequency gravitational waves rippling through the universe like a background. hum. astronomers suspect it may be coming from super massive black holes spiraling together before magic. the discovery may review more about how our universe was formed, kind of like a husband. when albert einstein set the speed limit of the universe at the dawn of a new century, he proved that the space arou

was seen by the you have in brussels, was it, this was the government tinkering in the workings of tubman's top court. and what we've seen now is a final judgment by the european union's top coal, which is the, the top cool in, or the use countries saying that this was not enlightened, essentially what the judges are says that the measures of this discipline retain but would not compatible with the guarantees of an independent judiciary. that's what they said today, this the final rolling, this is it, and i posted right off this case. so as you say, poland is lost. this case what this is really now, mean for the punish government or what it means. what they'll try and do is you mentioned as being big signs, a mini and you'll raise a day since the initial rolling k moved up until this day. the funds will not end, but they owe the best part of ability and you'll raise which is taken. i was posted as ability to access a 35000000 your a fund for getting out of the cobit 19 pandemic. they will try and get back on board with that, but more broadly, this plays into the wider discussions in poland,

we talk about harriet tubman as a union spy. she was brilliant and iconic and heroic. there are thousands of unnamed black women and men who provided unbelievably important information to the union army in terms of logistics, in terms of creating maps for them, connecting them to different supply chains. they are very important. the emancipation proclamation, these are words. the deeds to liberate black people came out of the black community. black people led the fight for radical political self-determination. black people were the most passionate and most eloquent and articulate abolitionists. they believed in what w.e.b. dubois called abolition democracy. not only do they want to permanently eradicate the system of racial slavery, but they wanted to build up new democratic systems that would allow all human beings to flourish. and a lot of maize when -- in a lot of ways when we think about the two years and five months between the emancipation proclamation and juneteenth, what we see as the united states finally embracing multiracial democracy. it is important for us

>> i want to see harriet tubman very much on the 20-dollar bill. i have promised and i am doing everything i possibly can to expedite that process. it essentially froze. we lost four years during the previous administration when secretary lieu proposed this in 2014, the scheduled date was 2030. i know that is a long time. but that is what it was. we've stolen and got it back -- but it is not -- >> the gentleman's time is expired. >> i want to thank ranking member waters for holding the hearing, thank you secretary yellen for being with us today. secretary yellen, on november 4th, the community development for financial institutions fund released a new proposed cdfi certification application using paperwork reduction act. why did the cdfi use the paperwork reduction act instead of the administration procedures act for that change? >> i'm not sure. ice to because the paperwork reduction act requires examination and forms. >> i would note the paperwork reduction act was enacted to minimize paperwork burden for stakeholders. the cdfi find won't be with

go into there are a lot of black women i love okay there's my mom there's beyoncÉ there's harriet tubmanand then there's b whales. okay, everybody looks to me secondhand because she knows i this every single class next class and we get into rb wells and lynching. you will see the work of black women continue like this that look we can the federal government or we can with this another way we can besiege the i in some cases especially ought to be well i can tell you all about lynching or i could tell y'all about what's going on, how to organize around this. we'll get to the the black women's club movement. we'll talk about these things. but i think again, because i spent a lot of time with this. i think you start seeing most historians think that starts 19th it i mean 20th century so they started out to be will always start here because to me it is these black women who are determining what who are telling people what freedom is. so if you say that i'm free, then compensation is freedom. you say that i'm free. you helping, me out when i needed is freedom. you say that i'm free not being m

go into there are a lot of black women i love okay there's my mom there's beyoncÉ there's harriet tubmanand then there's b whales. okay, everybody looks to me secondhand because she knows i this every single class next class and we get into rb wells and lynching. you will see the work of black women continue like this that look we can the federal government or we can with this another way we can besiege the i in some cases especially ought to be well i can tell you all about lynching or i could tell y'all about what's going on, how to organize around this. we'll get to the the black women's club movement. we'll talk about these things. but i think again, because i spent a lot of time with this. i think you start seeing most historians think that starts 19th it i mean 20th century so they started out to be will always start here because to me it is these black women who are determining what who are telling people what freedom is. so if you say that i'm free, then compensation is freedom. you say that i'm free. you helping, me out when i needed is freedom. you say that i'm free not being m

jenny's fault for splashing the jar everywhere [ laughter ] philadelphia has unveiled a new harriet tubman will only be on display temporarily >> "so catch her before she's gone," said slave owners [ audience ohs ] >> she's fine with that joke >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] an angry neighbor sent a lesbian couple in massachusetts a letter complaining about the couple's pride flag >> and then the lesbians sent one back complaining about the neighbor's poorly built deck [ laughter ] >> seth: now, jenny, are you handy? >> yes, but never on the first date [ cheers ] >> seth: an all-black group is planning to climb mount everest. >> which is just a fancy way of saying they're going to try to vote in texas. [ laughter ] >> seth: now, amber -- amber, why don't more black people climb mountains? >> we're just trying to let white people have something. you climb the mountains. >> seth: the new reboot of "sex and the city" features several queer characters >> also featuring several queer characters, your food co-op. [ light laughter ] >> seth: two black queer women recently opened a new lesbian bar in

and when i heard the name church terrell and rb wells and harriet tubman, i knew those names. but those women were race women. i know any they had racial consciousness. i didn't know anything about gender consciousness. and here was was talking about these women who were fighting for the vote. she transformed life. and just very quickly, she and sharon harley, they decided, as we were graduate students, that nobody else was doing this. we didn't have professors that doing this. so they decided that graduate students would put together this called afro-american women struggles and images. so that came out in 1978. i was still in graduate school by then in a ph.d. program. but i always say this to my graduates and i'm saying this to graduate students here today. those of you, the millions of you who have worked with the deborah gray white that. you know, that you shape the field, you know, we literally began this thing called black women's as graduate. you know, these were our dissertations. that's what you're doing now. you still field defining. i'll i'd like to say that you kn

> joining us now, sabrina rodriguez, national political reporter for the political post and katie tubman. we have president biden announcing his first campaign rallies and speaking with community members in philadelphia on saturday and that's coming just days after trump's arraignment in miami. is that the split screen we're going to be watching for the next few months as we try to project ahead to what this general election could look like? >> 100%, alicia. that's what we are going to be seeing going forward. if democrats and especially biden in his presidential campaign is smart about it i think we're at right now what we are seeing even in the past few days and even in the past few hours today with trump speaking out after hearing from his former attorney general bill barr speak about how this is a damning indictment and how bad this is and how this is not trump being a victim. everything that barr said is what republicans are probably not going to be saying. so if democrats are smart here it's going to be the point of underscoring how bad this is. i think right now we are looking at

subjugation, enslaved abuse and anonymity are told and linked narratives of harriet's daughters of harriet tubmanthe natural worlds they worked with and are buried in are captured with virtuoso verbal skill, batting the nameless in southern landscapes of trauma, joy, love, song and black claire. it is daughters harriet. her memory of running through sweet birch and sinewy montane sound to see the matting sway obscures degradation burns of -- moons, the auto lifts of suffering in its -- moments, pulse marcel and garnets beneath the razor of home and on homed recalled its whiteness of heat blisters sundered women beneath the coals of slaves. the odd nails of hate lie within the politics of god, the swift of soured nettles, african marigolds in conjure bags, the talc of skippers and the salt of brown rivers is of balm. a sash across quivering sheath. she believes in the benevolent ice of terrible things. her body's serfdom bitten. the collateral of skin that she lacks. wretched earth in black clare it is. and the memory of beginning again and and again. taking the stage next as east l.a. native, who

when you talk about abolitionist you have to talk about harriet tubman and harriet beecher stowe. you have to talk about frederick the -- frederick done. in the time of dealing with death around him, henry wadsworth longfellow wrote something called the psalm of life. it in some guiding principles for our work in the days of head date -- days ahead. we are not separate movements in separate states. all of you voluntarily said you want to be a part of the work. here is the psalm of life. what the heart of the young man said to the fathers. tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream. for the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not what they seem. life is real. life is earnest. and the grave is not the goal. dust thou art to dust return with was not spoken of the soul. not enjoyment and not sorrow is our dust didn't end or way. but to act that each tomorrow finds us farther than today. art is long and time is fleeting. and our hearts of those stopped and brave still like muffled drums are beating funeral marches to the grave. in the world's broad field of battle

we talk about harriet tubman as a union spy. she was brilliant and iconic and heroic.e thousands of unnamed black women and men who provided unbelievably important information to the union army in terms of logistics, in terms of creating maps for them, connecting them to different supply chains. they are very important. the emancipation proclamation, these are words. the deeds to liberate black people came out of the black community. black people led the fight for radical political self-determination. black people were the most passionate and most eloquent and articulate abolitionists. they believed in what w.e.b. dubois called abolition democracy. not only do they want to permanently eradicate the system of racial slavery, but they wanted to build up new democratic systems that would allow all human beings to flourish. and a lot of maize when -- in a lot of ways when we think about the two years and five months between the emancipation proclamation and juneteenth, what we see as the united states finally embracing multiracial democracy. it is important for us to remem

the way, i haven't said name it martin luther king, i haven't said name it sojourner truth, harriet tubman. i haven't said name it john brown, nat turner. here's what i've said. i've said, remove his name and let the name become what it was before it was the russell senate office building. it was it was called the old office senate building. take as much time as you like to develop a process, if you like, and then a name or a name that is suitable for the building. but the excuse of we can't take it off because we can't agree on a name, that's shameful. and every senator over there ought to be ashamed. i don't go into the richard russell office building. i'm a one-person protest. i'm not going to demean myself. i have enough respect and dignity for myself not to go into a building named after a racist and a bigot. i'm not going to do it. and those who do it, well, it's your choice can. but if you don't have to, you are disrespecting yourself. i have written a letter to various organizations that i was invited to come over and speak in the building for various reasons and i have sent it to