October 28, 2020 by NextTribe Editors · Activism

8 Women, 6 Days, 116 Miles: A Walk to Channel the Spirit of Harriet Tubman

Amid this year's racial protests, a group called attention to social injustice by walking Harriet Tubman's freedom journey. Here's how they did it.

They were eight strangers when they started, but two women brought them all together: a heroic figure who lived more than 150 years ago and a retired realtor who felt the power of the past more than ever today.

Linda Harris has been moved by the story of Harriet Tubman ever since her father gave her a biography of the Underground Railroad conductor when she was a child. Harris, 65, re-read the biography in May after the killing of George Floyd and she saw new and disturbing parallels, she says.

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