Underground Railroad

We’ve always learned about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad that she created to help slaves escape to freedom. We know the significance of that route but do we actually know the way? Girl Trek co-founders Vanessa Garrison and T.Morgan Dixon and a group of supporters are walking the first 100 miles of Harriet Tubman’s Underground […]

With photos of Harriet Tubman being few and far between, when a rare new photo of her surfaced it was a huge deal. While most photos depict Tubman as an elderly woman, a newly unearthed picture shows a much younger Tubman and was quickly acquired by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History […]

A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, one of America's most revered freedom fighters, has just surfaced in Auburn, N.Y., where she made her home after the Civil War.

A teacher is in trouble over having her only Black student play a slave in an Underground Railroad game. School officials said the game was unauthorized.

Harriet Tubman has been very busy over the last couple of weeks.

Abolitionist and writer William Still served an important role during the Underground Railroad movement. His 1872 book, The Underground Railroad, is reportedly the only first-person account of the tales involving the movement and the shuttling of the enslaved to the North so they could experience freedom. Still was born free in Burlington County, New Jersey […]

Jussie Smollett won’t be the only one in his family to grace the small screen in 2016. His once better known sister Jurnee Smollet-Bell is headling a new show coming to WGN in early 2016. Underground tells the story of a slave escape in the 1800’s and co-stars Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, The Game’s […]

The case of Underground Railroad conductor Samuel Burris has come full circle, this after the abolitionist will finally be pardoned, 168 years since his conviction for freeing slaves. The state of Delaware will honor Burris in a ceremony next month, clearing him of his charges posthumously in the process. Burris was born in 1808 in […]

Not even the threat of being sold into slavery could stop Samuel Burris, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, from helping slaves to freedom in the 19th century. A free black man, Burris was caught helping a slave try to escape from Delaware in 1847. After Burris was tried and found guilty of enticing slaves […]

Boxer Joe Louis began a historic run of title defenses beginning in 1939, the same year he purchased the Spring Hill Farm in the Shelby Township north of Detroit, Mich. In the 1800s, the farm also served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, marked by what was known as the “Beacon Tree.” Farm owners […]

On May 17, 1882, Albert Jackson became the first black postman in Toronto, Canada. In 1858, the runaway slave fought through the Underground Railroad and through the racist southern lands to get to Canada. Jackson, his mother and sibling escaped with the help of William Still. Still helped the family flee to Philadelphia, then to Canada. Once […]

Somehow Porsha Stewart – a granddaughter of late civil rights leader Hosea Williams – got to the age of 32 believing that the Underground Railroad was an actual train. On Sunday night’s episode of the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” the ladies took a trip to Savannah, where they embarked upon a Freedom Trail tour, visiting […]