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.
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Now that the bills for the new museums has been approved organisers say that each institution could potentially be built on or near the National Mall in Washington, DC
After a decades-long struggle, legislation to create a National Museum of the American Latino and a National Women’s History Museum in Washington, DC under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution was approved last night by the US Congress.
Since the passage of separate bills by the US House to found the women’s history museum in February and the Latino museum in July, Senate approval of the initiatives by unanimous voice vote had seemed all but certain this month but was thwarted on 10 December by a lone US lawmaker, Mike Lee of Utah, who called the proposals for such dedicated institutions “divisive”.
Hello, I’m Times music critic
Mark Swed, this week giving our irreplaceable Carolina A. Miranda a break before Christmas as we keep arts essential. I’m here just in time to point out that this week our most essential composer,
Ludwig van Beethoven unless you care to call him Louis van Beethoven, as a new German biopic does marks what would have been his 250th birthday. So Beethoven is where we’ll start.
A sculpture of Beethoven in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany.
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Music for our times
In his review of the German TV film, Times contributor Robert Abele found it “elegantly tailored” but “never exactly stirring,” which sounds more Louis-like than the Ludwig we all know. I haven’t seen it because I’ve been too busy trying to catch up with all the other things Beethoven. It’s been a full plate. But then, the Beethoven plate is always full. No matter where you are, no matter what you listen to, Beethoven molecules might be in the e