Most of us know Harriet Tubman as a one-time-slave-turned-abolitionist who risked her life for her freedom and that of at least 70 other Black people two centuries ago.
But there’s another Harriet Tubman–for 25 years, there’s been a three-person band carrying on her name and legacy.
Tubman’s name, band members say, is a reminder that “we don’t want to be slaves to anything,” as Harriet Tubman the band bassist Melvin Gibbs said in a Zoom interview earlier this month with bandmates J.T. Lewis and Brandon…
