Articles written by A Schott Bolden

A Schott Bolden, NNPA Contributor|Jun 13, 2019

With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Tubman would be the first African-American woman featured on U.S. currency. The $20 currently features a former president, Andrew Jackson, who not only owned slaves, but ordered the death march of thousands of Native Americans. Euphemistically called "Indian Removal," the Trail of Tears made way for white settlers to...