In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...

Edda Fields-Black gives a keynote speech for Juneteenth at Carnegie Mellon University in 2024. (Provided/Carnegie Mellon University) Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A new exhibition on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston honors work detailing Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid. The “Picturing Freedom: ...

Most anyone knows that Harriet Tubman served as spy, soldier, nurse and North Star navigator during the Civil War. And most know she fearlessly returned to the scene of her bondage to guide the ...

Edda Fields-Black won the prize for her book 'COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.' Edda Fields-Black was announced as the winner of a Pulitzer ...

Edda Fields-Black, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” is herself a descendant of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River ...

It’s the sort of story America loves telling about itself. A story promoting the idea of American exceptionalism. A daring midnight raid. A hero. Freedom prevailing over evil. ByChadd Scott, ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The Carnegie Mellon ...

The YWCA of Charleston will be hosting their annualRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Parade MOnday morningstarting at Burke High SchoolThe Rev. National gas prices rise, but South ...