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Better Known For Her Slave Rescues, Harriet Tubman Led Military Raids During The Civil War As Well

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America. “I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once told an interviewer. “There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” Though Tubman is most famous for her successes along the Underground Railroad, her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known. As a biographer of Tubman, I think this is a shame. Her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured despite suffering decades of enslavement and second class citizenship. It is only in mod...

Jason Momoa Known For Working Out And Being In Fantastic Shape

CELEBRITIES Jason Momoa got his start in the Baywatch spinoff Baywatch Hawaii, but his big break came when he won the role of Ronon Dex in the TV show Stargate Atlantis. He is known for working out and being in fantastic shape which we caught in shirtless glimpses of during his Baywatch days. It was his turn as Khal Drogo in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones that brought him into the mainstream consciousness and out of his clothes. During the early stages of the first season of Game of Thrones, Momoa’s Drogo is married to Daenerys Targaryen. During their honeymoon he takes her to bed and thrusts vigorously into her, giving us a nice shot of his rock hard body from the side. Later he walks into his tent fully nude and sits down. We see him from behind with his warrior’s ass bared for all...

America’s First Known Black Master Distiller – The Story Of Nearest Green

On The Record Stefanie Benjamin, University of Tennessee When you hear the name Jack Daniel, whiskey probably comes to mind. But what about the name Nathan “Uncle Nearest” Green? In 2016, The New York Times published a story about the distiller’s “hidden ingredient” – “help from a slave.” In the article, the brand officially acknowledged that an enslaved man, Nearest Green, taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. Since then, scholars, researchers and journalists have descended upon Lynchburg, Tennessee, hoping to learn more about a man who, until then, had appeared as a mere appendage in the story of the country’s most popular whiskey brand. As a scholar of tourism whose research involves highlighting marginalized populations and counternarratives, I followed these developments with k...