VP s historic election celebrated in cracked glass portrait
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The installation Vice President Kamala Harris Glass Ceiling Breaker is seen at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2021. Vice President Kamala Harris barrier-breaking career has been memorialized in a portrait depicting her face emerging from the cracks in a massive sheet of glass. Using a photo of Harris that taken by photographer Celeste Sloman, artist Simon Berger lightly hammered on the slab of laminated glass to create the portrait of Harris. The Washington Monument is seen in the distance and the Lincoln Memorial is reflected. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Glass Portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris at Lincoln Memorial Celebrates Her Shattering of Historic Glass Ceiling
Presented by the National Women s History Museum and Chief, the powerful art exhibit created from broken glass uniquely embodies Harris achievement, signals a new chapter for women and will be unveiled at the Lincoln Memorial on Feb. 4th.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A dramatic glass portrait honoring Vice President Kamala Harris will be unveiled in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Feb. 4th, celebrating Harris as America s first woman vice president. The exhibit, which will be on display through Feb. 6th, commemorates this seminal achievement for women in America and celebrates an incredible woman leader with many firsts to her name – including the first woman vice president, first Black vice president, first South Asian vice president and first vice president to graduate from a Historically B
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The Obama-era redesign of the currency was delayed during the Trump administration.
The White House will resume the Obama-era push to put Harriet Tubman’s image on the $20 bill, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.
“The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,” Psaki said in response to a reporter’s question during the daily briefing. “It’s important that our … money reflects the history and diversity of our country and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that.”
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Tubman was born Araminta Minty Ross in the early 1820s in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was enslaved at a young age and began working the field harvesting flax at age 13.
She escaped when she was around 27 years old, and she returned to Maryland about 13 times to rescue as many as 70 enslaved people through the Underground Railroad, a network of escape routes and safe houses organized by Black and white abolitionists. Abolitionists were those who sought to abolish the institution of slavery, through petitions, boycotts, speeches, literature and some advocated violent means.
Tubman claimed she never lost a passenger.