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Kanye West Jeered At His Own Campaign Rally For Claiming Harriet Tubman Never Actually Freed The Slaves

Kanye West Jeered At His Own Campaign Rally For Claiming Harriet Tubman Never Actually Freed The Slaves

Kanye West’s first campaign rally since announcing his run for president got off to a difficult start, with the rapper-turned-political candidate being jeered after claiming that famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves. Speaking to a crowd at the rally in Charleston, South Carolina, West spoke on a number of different issues, including […]

4y ago

Wendy Williams Discusses Rumors About Julia Roberts Being Considered To Play The Role Of Harriet Tubman

Wendy Williams Discusses Rumors About Julia Roberts Being Considered To Play The Role Of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is considered to be a hero and one of the most influential African Americans in history. However, there was a time when actress Julia Roberts was recommended to portray her on film, at least according to recent rumors. This seems to be an odd recommendation for an obvious reason; Roberts is a white […]

5y ago

Weekend Box Office: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Wins Its Opening, But Likely Won’t Be Back

Weekend Box Office: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Wins Its Opening, But Likely Won’t Be Back

The first two movies in the franchise devoted to The Terminator have scored incredibly high, and Arnold Schwarzenegger had a lot to do with that. The third film in the series wasn’t great, but fans still enjoyed it. After two lackluster sequels, the saga detailing machines taking over the planet has returned to dominance, but […]

5y ago

Harriet Tubman Won’t Be On The New $20 Bill After All, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Delays Redesign Until 2028

Harriet Tubman Won’t Be On The New $20 Bill After All, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Delays Redesign Until 2028

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Wednesday that the new $20 bill, at one time intended to feature abolitionist Harriet Tubman, won’t be introduced in 2020 — as originally planned — but rather in 2028, CNBC reports. Had the bill been issued in 2020, the release of the new design would have coincided with the […]

5y ago

Kanye West Defends ‘Slavery Was A Choice’ Comments On Chicago Radio Show

Kanye West Defends ‘Slavery Was A Choice’ Comments On Chicago Radio Show

A few months ago in May, Kanye West sent shock waves through the internet with a bold statement: The enslavement of black Americans was a choice by the slaves themselves. “When you hear about slavery for 400 years… for 400 years? That sounds like a choice,” the American rapper said to TMZ during an incendiary […]

6y ago

Nicki Minaj Pisses People Off By Saying She’s The ‘New’ Harriet Tubman

Nicki Minaj Pisses People Off By Saying She’s The ‘New’ Harriet Tubman

Nicki Minaj is a self-proclaimed queen, but she might have taken it too far when she claimed that she’s the “new” Harriet Tubman. It all started with a tweet, detailed Page Six. “All the QUEENS I remember, SHOOK S**T UP!!!!!!!! Queen of the week may go to HARRIET TUBMAN!!!!!!… Had she just sat there & […]

6y ago

Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Still Won’t Commit To Putting Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

Trump Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Still Won’t Commit To Putting Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

Just one day after President Donald Trump raised the nation’s collective eyebrows by reportedly referring to Haiti and African nations as “s***hole countries” during a closed door Oval Office meeting, his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to confirm that Harriet Tubman would be receiving her promised place on the $20 bill. Jack Lew, treasury secretary […]

6y ago

Steve King: Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Racist, Iowa Republican Says

Steve King: Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Racist, Iowa Republican Says

Iowa Republican Steve King has spoken out against putting the face of Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and the congressman believes it is racist to do so. According to King, it is “racist” and “sexist” to say a woman or person of color should be added to currency. “Here’s what’s really happening,” King said. […]

8y ago

Don’t Worry President Andrew Jackson Fans, US Treasury Confirms Jackson Will Remain On New $20 Bill Featuring Harriet Tubman

Don’t Worry President Andrew Jackson Fans, US Treasury Confirms Jackson Will Remain On New $20 Bill Featuring Harriet Tubman

Controversy has surrounded the U.S. Department Of Treasury’s announcement that civil rights warrior and women’s suffrage supporter Harriet Tubman will be featured on the new $20 bill. The issue seemed to be coming to a head as some politicians vocalized their disdain for the proposed new currency noting that we should not “diminish Andrew Jackson” […]

8y ago

Donald Trump Praises Andrew Jackson’s Legacy, Dismisses Harriet Tubman Change As ‘Political Correctness’

Donald Trump Praises Andrew Jackson’s Legacy, Dismisses Harriet Tubman Change As ‘Political Correctness’

Donald Trump criticized the U.S. Treasury’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, calling the change “pure political correctness.” Speaking with NBC’s Today Show this morning, Donald Trump blasted the Treasury Department for planning to replace Andrew Jackson — the U.S. president responsible for the infamous “Trail of Tears” — […]

8y ago

Ben Carson: Harriet Tubman Should Be On $2 Bill Not $20 Bill [Video]

Ben Carson: Harriet Tubman Should Be On $2 Bill Not $20 Bill [Video]

Former GOP U.S. Presidential candidate Ben Carson doesn’t think that Harriet Tubman belongs on the $20 bill. Rather, the doctor believes that she should be “honored” a little less lavishly. Indeed, Ben Carson thinks that rather than replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Tubman should be put on a bill that’s worth less. A […]

8y ago

Harriet Tubman Boots Andrew Jackson Off The $20 Bill, Hamilton To Stay Put

Harriet Tubman Boots Andrew Jackson Off The $20 Bill, Hamilton To Stay Put

According to the U.S. Treasury, Alexander Hamilton is staying put on the $10 bill while Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson is getting booted from the $20 bill in favor of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The changes are expected to roll out sometime in 2020, so Andrew Jackson will remain on the $20 bill until the new […]

8y ago

Harriet Tubman Picked To Take The $10, And So Many Worthy Women Deserve A Bill, Too

Harriet Tubman Picked To Take The $10, And So Many Worthy Women Deserve A Bill, Too

The debate over which woman will appear on the $10 bill has peaked with two top picks — Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony. However for supporters, that bill just isn’t enough. “We want Aunt Harriet on the 20,” Tubman’s great-great-grand-niece Pauline Copes-Johnson, 88, told the Associated Press after a meeting in Seneca Falls, New […]

9y ago

Legislation Pushing To Put Harriet Tubman On The New $10 Bill

Legislation Pushing To Put Harriet Tubman On The New $10 Bill

Legislation is pushing to put Harriet Tubman on the new $10 bill in wake of the U.S. Treasury Department’s announcement that they will be removing Andrew Hamilton and replacing him with a woman. “The U.S. currency and the images of leaders and landmarks that our notes depict has long been a way for us to […]

9y ago

Harriet Tubman’s Biggest $20 Bill Competition Could Be Andrew Jackson

Harriet Tubman’s Biggest $20 Bill Competition Could Be Andrew Jackson

Last month, Harriet Tubman triumphed over Eleanor Roosevelt by just a few hundred votes to become the winner of the the Women on $20s poll — a campaign that sought to select a woman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Only around 600,000 votes were cast, but the reality of Harriet replacing Andrew […]

9y ago

Raven Symone Doesn’t Want Harriet Tubman $20 Bill, ‘I Would’ve Chosen Rosa Parks’

Raven Symone Doesn’t Want Harriet Tubman $20 Bill, ‘I Would’ve Chosen Rosa Parks’

Raven Symone believes a woman should be featured on the $20 bill, she just doesn’t think it should be Harriet Tubman. Rather, she believes Rosa Parks would be a better fit. Based on the Women on 20s’ unofficial online poll, Tubman was the people’s number one choice, but Raven said she thinks someone a little […]

9y ago

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Harriet Tubman is a prominent topic in the news recently, even though she passed away just over 100 years ago. Voted number one in a poll centered on replacing Andrew Jackson’s picture on the $20 bill, many people who don’t remember her from history class are wondering just who was this Harriet Tubman that everyone […]

9y ago

Harriet Tubman Vs Raven Symone: ‘I Would Choose A Different Woman’

Harriet Tubman Vs Raven Symone: ‘I Would Choose A Different Woman’

On the topic of Harriet Tubman and the $20 bill, Raven Symone sparks her seemingly-confusing views again. On The View, Raven states that she wants someone else. Recently, there’s been discussion and petition to replace Andrew Jackson’s face on the $20 bill with another. The petition says that there needs to be a significant woman […]

9y ago

America Wants Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

America Wants Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill

#DearMrPresident: America has finally spoken. They want Harriet Tubman to be the face of our $20 bill. Currently, our currency is all male and all white. A campaign called Women on 20s hopes to change that in the near future, so much so that they began a petition to replace Andrew Jackson on the bill. […]

9y ago

Group Wants One Of These Four Women To Replace Andrew Jackson On The $20 Bill

Group Wants One Of These Four Women To Replace Andrew Jackson On The $20 Bill

A movement has come about from a group that is seeking to have Andrew Jackson replaced on the $20 bill. Their movement is looking to have a woman replace the former president’s likeness on the bill, and they’ve now whittled the choices down to four – Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, and Wilma Mankiller. […]

9y ago

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