PORTRAITS
PORTRAITS
National Portrait Gallery
Growing Younger with Harriet Tubman
21 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2020 at 7:00 am.
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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and film director Kasi Lemmons love Harriet Tubman, but they weren't in love with her portrait as an older woman in a heavy dark dress. Then Hayden got a call.

See the photographs we talk about here:

https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/harriet-tubman