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Some crazy stories come out of Hollywood, but this one is truly unbelievable. According to Harriet screenwriter and producer, Gregory Allen Howard, Julia Roberts was suggested by a studio executive to play abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The Oscar-winning actress, who is white, looks nothing like Tubman, who was black…

Focus Features’ Harriet landed one of the prized slots of award season — a screening on Capitol Hill. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the Congressional Black Caucus co-hosted a showing of the movie, a biopic of Harriet Tubman, at the theater in the Capitol…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

"I still struggle to find the words to really encapsulate what that experience was for me," says Aisha Hinds of playing Harriet Tubman this season on Underground. "As an artist, by all means, it was an incredible, exciting venture and challenge to bring theater on to television," she adds in our Next Generation TV…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's “Minty” episode of Underground. “I think Harriet's spirit is one that we certainly need today, which is why she's sort of revisiting us in all of these different mediums, whether it be long-format television, whether it be film, whether it be her face on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony award winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been tapped as the title character in Macro/New Balloon’s film Harriet, the biopic on famous abolitionist and warrior Harriet Tubman. Seith Mann attached to direct from a script by Gregory Allen Howard. Tubman is an American hero who escaped the shackles of…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of  tonight's Underground Season 1 finale. With a lot of blood, cunning, bravery and vengeance, Season 1 of Underground came to an end tonight. In more ways that one, it has been a very successful run for the Misha Green and Joe Pokaski-created series about the 19th century…

EXCLUSIVE: First the abolitionist leader Harriet Ross Tubman pushed the controversial President (and Native American foe) Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill to become the first African American on U.S. currency, and now she’s getting her own feature film. It seems quite appropriate that Charles D. King, who was the first…

Following the news today that the Treasure Department has named Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty dollar bill, the cast and creatives of WGN’s acclaimed drama Underground have weighed in, celebrating the move that honors the icon whose exploits before and during the American Civil War…

The U.S. Treasury will announce this afternoon that a campaign to keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill has been successful, as has been one to replace the slave-holding, Native American-killing Andrew Jackson with a new figure. Getting her shot at long last will be Harriet Tubman, architect and engineer of the…

HBO Films has teamed with writer Kirk Ellis, producer Doug Ellin and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV for a project about Harriet Tubman, with Oscar nominee Viola Davis set to portray the famous abolitionist. Based on the biography Bound For The Promised Land by historian Kate Clifford Larson, the film, now in…