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A very interesting theory about the major plot twist of the film is now being widely dissected and we've just got to discuss ...
In her memoir "Matriarch," Tina Knowles drops a truth bomb that feels more like a movie plot twist than a real-life memory.
SAN DIEGO, C.A. — Barbara Allen, sixth great-granddaughter of Sojourner Truth, says she’ll never forget the ceremony where the U.S. Navy christened a John Lewis-class oiler the USNS Sojourner… ...
Military Future USNS Sojourner Truth, the Navy’s 6th new fleet oiler, launched at NASSCO shipyard by Tessa Balc • Times of San Diego April 27, 2025, 7:01 a.m.
She was born into slavery in Swartekill, N.Y., in 1797, and escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She became the first Black woman to win such a case against a White man in 1828.
In 1826, she escaped to freedom with her infant daughter, and several years later secured the freedom of a son enslaved in Alabama. In 1843, Isabella Baumfree took the powerful name Sojourner Truth.
After years of research and community engagement, the Poughkeepsie City School District will rename George Clinton Elementary, the Christopher Columbus office and Samuel Morse Elementary.
Truth was sold again in 1810 to John Dumont of West Park, escaping in 1826, shortly before New York abolished slavery, with her infant daughter after years of horror and abuse.
Born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, in 1797, Truth escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Though she was born Isabella Baumfree, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth in ...
The bronze sculpture by artist Trina Greene, called “Sojourner Truth: First Step to Freedom,” depicts Truth as she escaped slavery in 1826 while carrying her infant daughter, Sophia.
Nash wants those who visit the Sojourner Truth statue to know how difficult her work was traveling and fighting for equal rights as a Black suffragette and abolitionist beginning in the 1840s.
Before taking the name Sojourner Truth, Isabella Bomfree was born into slavery in or around 1797 in the Hudson Valley. She walked away from the home of her final owner in 1826 with her infant ...