harriet tubman's legacy still lives on today. i mean, the fight for equality for people of color is an ongoing thing that, until it's lly leveraged, is going to be something that we're constantly fighting for. i feel that art has always been the doorway in, the doorway that grabs the attention of the public, and once you have their attention, you do something with it. so, hopefully, we hope this sculpture will do just that. >> hill: mayor ras baraka says his decision to remove columbus sparks controversy to this day. >> even in here in new jersey, i'm getting pushback saying that what we're doing is anti this group of anti this person and we are destroying history, but that's not the case. what we will be actually doing is telling history as it is. and we're including ourselves in it, you know, our story has not been told. so, we're including ourselves in history to make a full presentation of what actually took place. >> hill: architect nina cooke john says she hopes the monument is an immersive experience. she's also partnered

it means something to say that, "i'm from the town where harriet tubman lived. i'm from the town where harriet tubman continued her legacy, and where she's buried." >> this is my great grandfather, this is harriet's nephew. >> reporter: judith bryant is the great-great-grandniece of harriet tubman. the great-great granddaughter of a brother tubman rescued in 1854. >> i wouldn't be here if she hadn't done what she did, >> reporter: she lives in a nearby house built by tubman's nephew in 1901. bryant says tubman's extended family in auburn was very close knit. >> that was her motivating factor, and so she rescued her family first. >> reporter: bryant's mother knew the elderly tubman when she was a child. >> my mother said harriet would come and sit in the corner by the door, she would appear to doze off until somebody said something that she was either maybe a little off-color or then she would sit up and-- >> reporter: perk up. >> sit up and, yes, perk up, open her eyes and this was sort of make it understood that she didn't quite approve of it. >> reporter: brya

the fightto to accepting a new normal. >> harriet tubman. >> the heroic story of harriet tubman of i'm joined oy the stara reting h new film, jr.thia erivo and leslie odom an >> what my warning was don't draw attention to yourself.dy you're alr

harriet tubman. amna: there's thi element to it ticed as i watched. it's very much told through a female gaze. a lot of stories about enslaved people we hear come from men. and in this role, you have got a strong female character. even in the time when she delivers her most impassioned speech, it's from a female's perspective. it's about the rape of young girls. it's about children bei t separated frir mothers. was that a deliberate choice? cynthia: i think it was definitely deliberate on her part, but it was, for me, essential, because i think too about women, and ten'tories coming from women's places. and we don't have enough of it. >' there'nothing more you can do. >> don't you tell me what i can't do. i made it this far on my own. god was watching, but my feet was my own, running, bleeding, climbing, nearly drowned, nothing to eat for days and days, and i made it. kasi: we specifically wanted talk about family separation. a lot has been said about the cruelty of slavery, psychological torment of seeing your sisters sold away or a mother seeinher d

. >> i'm for harriet tubman. i'm also for andrew jackson. andrew jackson is getting the short end of the stick but i like harriet tubman. >> woodruff: david. jackson in, tubman up. >> woodruff: thank you both. >> woodruff: now, an update from a man we first met out on a walk. hari recently caught up with him. >> sreenivasan: last fall, we took you to the southern caucusus mountains in the country of georgia to meet paul salopek. he is the two-time pulitzer prize winning foreign correspondent on an epic journey he calls "the out of eden walk." beginning in the great rift valley in africa in 2013, salopek is now three years into a decade-long walk around the world. after our walk with paul, he crossed azerbaijan, and then around christmas, hopped a freighter across the caspian sea, toward central asia. and paul salopek joins me again. paul, tell our audience where we find you now? >> today i'm in the port city of aktau, kazakhstan which is a very remote, isolated sort of starting line for the next asiatic phase of the walk. this is kind of whe

of harriet tubman means a lot to people of all ages in this country, and it speaks to something very important about american democracy. here, a woman, born a slave, illiterate her whole life, can, after spending countless tripsri going back and forth freeing people on an individual basis, work for the army to help as a spy, help them find their way into battle in the civil war, and be a founder of the women's suffrage movement hour, that cat change our country. and i think it's a tremendous american story. >> woodruff: now, by all s accounts, you changed your thinking here. >> iur did. >> woodruff: there were reports it was going to be a woman to replace alexander hamilton. there were reliable reports it would be susan b. anthony, the leader of the women's suffragefr movement in this country. why change? >> what we defense widen the lens. it became very clear listeningni to the amount of interest and response, first of all, that the $20 had a special resonance because we all use it so much, because we get it in money machines, that it's the bill where if we wanted to put a woman on

tubman at the center of his work. special correspondent jared bowen of gbh-boston brings us this report from new hampshire as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, canvas. >> reporter: in mugs and plates and urns at the currier museum of art in new hampshire, we find the porcelain d.n.a. of artist roberto lugo. >> i have images of protests, of historical figures like, you know, angela davis and, you know, black thought and people that have really inspired me to make me who i am. and i couldn't be that without those people. >> reporter: this show, as the title explains, is the ceramicist bringing us his joy for a career literally shaped around culture, his own roots in graffiti and his love of family. >> here's my mother with her granddaughter teaching her how to make pasteles, which is a puerto rican dish. an image of family in the '60s, which is my family, like sort of my grandma with the bouffant and you know getting ready for church. this table is like a self- portrait. >> roberto is this wonderful, joyful s

. >> i'm very excited about harriet tubman. >> i'm very excited about harriet tubman and the otherou women that will be included on our money. t but i also want to make sure that women are making the money. >> reporter: pennsylvania is the biggest prize among the fivees states that vote on tuesday. >> woodruff: in london today, president obama called for overturning north carolina's new law on public bathrooms. it limits transgender people to the facility that corresponds to their sex at birth. mr. obama said that's wrong, but he said britons should still feel free to visit. the british government has issued a travel advisory warning of possible discrimination in some u.s. states.ad the president also weighed in on britain's upcoming vote on whether to leave the european union. he penned an op-ed in "the daily telegraph," writing, "the u.s. and the world need your outsized influence to continue, including within europe." later, he followed up on hisow appeal, at a news conference with prime minister david cameron. >> part of it is to be honest and to let you know what i think, and sp

the new york home of harriet tubman is to become a historic site by the end of the year. a former slave, tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom. earlier this week, tubman was named the new face of the $20 bill. and that's all for this edition of pbs newshour weekend. i'm megan thompson. good night. captioning sponsored by wnet captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: lewis b. and louise hirschfeld cullman. bernard and irene schwartz. judy and josh weston. the cheryl and philip milstein family. the citi foundation. supporting innovation and enabling urban progress. the john and helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. sue and edgar wachenheim, iii. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you

. >> focus speeches has released a trailer about harriet tubman. >> it tells the unlely story of a black lady which against all odds was the main character in the movie. >> i talk about slavery. it's notig a a birmingham as it is for white people to hear about it which is something i learned each time we do jokes that catch up. i gha oh,s too much of a bummer. and you go, all right, i guess so. >> and like, i had a joke it was something set up about gay weddings. and seth says, what' the diff sence betweenaight wetting and the gay wedding. i said the reason the parents are crying. which to me is very fun. i happened to mention it for a friend of mine and they said, you can't mention that on television. it's too sad. about p.c. culture. versation but there are things to be said about our respective communities that are hard and true. and we're interested in exploring those through jokes. >> are we saying something new na the audience can hear and then learn and understand and -- in one fell swoop? i don't like can't. when people talk about things you can't joke about, but i think it's imp

we have added sites for civil rights, like harriet tubman. we added stonewall, which tells the story of the l.g.b.t. civil rights movement as well. we need to be telling that story, so that all americans feel part of the patriotic and symbolic values that this nation embodies. >> reporter: jarvis says they have also embraced technology, webcams, online chats, even video games. national park sites are actually "pokemon go" sites? >> they are. they are. the "pokemon go" community has spread these little monsters all over the national park service, and we're embracing that, because it's getting people outside and getting-- using technology in a way that sort of connects them to these places. >> whoa. >> reporter: here in the redwood forest, these 10-year-olds have found something better than "pokemon go" characters. >> turkeys. >> gobble, gobble. >> the evidence shows that when kids are exposed to the place, they learn, they retain, they become more interested and more excited about learning. >> whoa. >> how do you feel right now? >> being in th

a rare photo of harriet tubman has been acquired by the library of congress and the smithsonian's new african- american history museum. it shows a seated tubman in her late 40s. most photos of the underground railroad hero were taken later in her life. it was part of an album sold at auction in new york friday for more than $160,000. still to come on the newshour: what we know and don't know about russia's influence in the 2016 election. the potential human toll of loosening restrictions on air strikes abroad. trump supporters grade the president on his first months in office, and much more. >> woodruff: it seems every day, sometimes every hour, there are new developments on the connections between the white house and the russian government. it's hard to keep it all straight. but we will try. here to talk through what we know, and what we don't know, about the alleged ties and what they mean. for that i am joined by correspondents john yang and lisa desjardins. thank you both for being here to do this. lisa, i'm going to start with you. remind us, where did all this come from? what wa

. >> focus pictures has released it's trailer for the n movie" harriet," about harriet tubman. >> it tells the unlikely story of a black lady who against odl was the main character in a vie. t'if i talk about slavery, not as big a bummer as it is for white people to hear about it, which is something i've learned each time we do jokes at they go, "oh that's too much of a bummer." you go, "all right, i guess so." >> i had a jokwhere there was me setup about gay weddings. then seth said, "jenny, what's the difference between a straight wedding and a gay and i said, "the reason the parents are crying." which to me is very funny, but i happened to mention it to a friend of mine before that segment aired and they're like, "you can't say that on television. that's too sad." there's a lot of conversation about like p.c. culture and wh's too far. we're not trying to court that line of offensiveness, but we're between like... there's things to be said about our respective communities that are hard and true. and we're interested inos exploring through jokes. >> are we saying something new that

and she called on a history that dates back to the 1800ss with words spoken by the abolitionist harriet tubman. >> in my mind, i see a line, and over that line, i see greenfields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line. but i can't seem to get there no how. i can't seem to get over that line. >> reporter: but davis was using tubman's words to illustrate lack of opportunities in the movie industry for african american women today saying. >> you cannot win an emmy for roles that are simply not there. >> reporter: to pursue that further, we met up with a man who's been involved in looking at just that issue over time. he's darnell hunt, chair of the department of sociology at u.c.l.a., and the head of its ralph bunch center for african american studies. professor darnell hunt, thank you for joining us. >> i'm glad to be here. >> reporter: the other night at the emmy awards, viola davis seems to have really struck a nerve, which coin sides, incidentally, with the research you've been doing. tell us a little bit about what she had to sa

obviously, harriet tubman. louis armstrong. but i just added to that ever-expanding dinner table, muhammad ali. >> brown: that's a good dinner party. >> oh, my god! and you just shut up and listen. >> brown: muhammad ali, who battled parkinsons in his last decades, died in 2016. the new series on his life and legacyremieres this weekend. fothe pbs newshour, i'm jeffrey brown in walpole, new hampshire. >> nawaz: on the newshour online right now, we visit a small louisiana fishing village where hundreds of homes were destroyed by hurricane ida, leaving residents to take shelter in tents and cars when the next tropical storm hit. read more about the growing housing crisis there on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. stay with pbs tonight: how the white house is navigating covid and divides among democrats, while pro-trump supporters rally in washington. join yamiche alcindor and her panel tonight on "washington week." and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. join us online, and again here on monday evening. for all of u

you cannot tell the story of every run away slave so you pick harriet tubman. you can't do every riot so we do the l.a. riots. this story of solomon northup which has been -- so many americans have seen in "12 years a slave." we picked karen stevens, the black man who was framed for drug possession on a greyhound bus, has m.s., in a wheelchair and served in prison for 11 years before he was pardoned. >> ifill: there's a theme that runs throughout all six parts of this that african americans, no matter how they came to this country, managed to create something out of nothing. whether it was culturally, historically, whether it was food, somehow created something out of nothing. >> yeah, i wanted to achieve two effects. one to show the effects of black agency. the fact that our people had a will to survive. we call one episode "making way out of no way." which you know is fundamental to the black tradition, that expression. and our ancestors deferred gratification. they had no idea that slavery would actually end. but they functioned as if it would. the they coul

there was harriet tubman, frederick douglas, and then a jump to rosa parks and martin luther king. we learned about four people in african american history. now, where i sit and i know that four million people received their freedom, or took their freedom, or were granted their freedom, stole their freedom in 1865. and even before that moment, there's so many stories that we can understand about survival, about resilience, about pride, and about the african american experience in the united states. that goes beyond those four great figures. teaching texas slavery is a digital humanities project that i've been working on with a team of scholars for a number of years, and this project is a way to teach young children about the contributions of african americans, to look at them in their eyes, to understand the humanity of the enslaved and their contributions to the state of texas. in my work, i try to honor the voices and experiencof people who were enslaved, because for so long in the literature, nobody asked them about how they experienced slavery. they talked about enslaved people

there are other artifacts from historic figures: harriet tubman's hymnbook, rosa parks' dress. and many from popular culture: chuck berry's red cadillac, michael jacksons' fedora, louis armstrong's trumpet. but, the vast majority, says bunch, will be from the unheralded and everyday life. >> many museums start with thousands of objects. we started with zero. so what we had to do is think of different ways to suggest that most of the 20th century and most of the 19th century is still in the basements, attics and homes of people. so we created an array of programs where we've gone around the country and found amazing things. >> brown: when completed this new national museum will join some 300 other museums around the country devoted to african- american history including the african american firefighter museum in los angeles, the wright museum of african- american history in detroit and the national civil rights museum in memphis. several new ones, including in atlanta and charleston, are underway. the new museum in washington will no doubt be the most prominent. and at today's c

tubman, frederick douglas, talked about the wrht brothers and ingenuity. all thehreads with you in the speech. t ere it was in congruent was with the rof his presidency. it's graded on a curve that we are surprised to see him stand in front of a big crowd and not start into chants olock her up and not start railing about, you know, witch hunts. was sort of a one off. i think the speech itself did what it should have done. i love the flyovers, i love the blue angels and we see them in a lot of other contexts, they fly over the super bowl, so that rt really didn't bother me. again, it was just very jarring to see that against the context of the rest of donald trump's presidencyow >> woodruff: david, do you think this affects him politicall you were saying it helps him with his base, the people who already like him. does it add? do people look at this and say, mmm, i want tol feebetter about my country? >> yeah, well, his political strategy, i remember back, likes 15 ygo, there are a lot ofbo conservativeks coming out and the blisher said our j is to arrange

tubman, thh former slave whose heroic resc missions brought hundreds of aves north. in new york recently, coates said he wanted to counter what he sees as the many myths of the thissouth, that continue t day. >> what became clearo me is that you can't win this argument by showing documents. the facts won't do it. people are holding onto something else. this is the reason why peopleas gather, for instance, to protest taking down confederate statues. this is not a oblem of history. this is a problem of myth. >> brown: when you say "myth," you mean, like"story >> story, yes, exactly right. >> brown: so you're taking actual things and ging it a different sort of life in fiction? >> yes. much of that myth was drawn out of actual history: robert e. lee is a historical fire, and there's a mythological rort e. lee. i felt that maybe there was an opportunity to do the exact same thing with blacks who lived under the period of ement, that there were stories and myths that could be drawn outat and written in a compelling and >> brown: how much research nt into it? did you-- you

from harriet tubman to alice paul to john lewis, from the beaches of normandy to the rending of the iron curtain, our story has soured when we've built bridges, not walls. when we've lent a hand, not when we've pointed fingers, when we've hoped, not feared. if we live hope, we open our souls to the power of love. we've been taught to love our neighbors as ourselves. as individuals and as a nation, however, we fail at following that commandment more often than we succeed. but when we fail, we must try again and again and again, for only in trial is progress possible. from jamestown forward our story has become fuller and fairer becausof people who share a conviction that dr. king articulated on that sunday half a century ago. "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it depends toward justice." bending that arc requires all of us. it requires we the people, and it requires a president of the united states with empathy, grace, a big heart and an open mind. joe biden will be such a president. let us now write the next chapter of the american story, one of hope, of love, of justi justice.

this is the home of abraham lincoln, frederick douglass, amelia earha, harriet tubman, the wright brothers, neil armstrong, and so many more. this is the country where children learn names like wyatt earp, davy crockett, and annie oakley. this is the place where the pilgrims landed atlymouth and where texas patriots made their last stand at the alamo. the beautiful, beautiful, alamo. the american nation was carved out of the vast frontier by the toughest, strongest, fiercest, and most determined men and women ever to walk the face of the earth. our ancestors braved the unknown; tamed the wilderness; settled the wild west; liftedio mi from poverty, disease,; and hungnquished tyranny and fascism; ushered the worldf to new heightsience and medicine; laid down railroads, dug out canals, raised up the skyscrapers-- and, ladiesnd gentlemen, our ancestors built the most exceptional republic ever to exist in all of human historin and we are mit greater than ever before! this is our glorious and magnificent inherince. we are aricans. we are the pioneers. we are the pathfinders. we settled the new w