Her life story highlights a mother’s courage, sacrifice and relentless fight to reunite her children, writes Mike Suhre.

It is commonly believed that enslaved women were relegated to work in the plantation Big House while men worked in the fields ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Dozens came out to celebrate Sojourner Truth Day at the abolitionist and suffragette’s namesake state park spanning Kingston and the town of Ulster on Saturday. The celebration, the ...

PORT EWEN, N.Y. — Esopus town officials are celebrating the legacy of Sojourner Truth’s success as an individual in freeing herself and her children from slavery while living in a tiny community, ...

HAYDENVILLE — This Sunday, Barbara Allen, the sixth generation great-granddaughter of famed equality activist Sojourner Truth, will deliver a sermon at Haydenville Congregational Church and also ...

A new statue of the abolitionist Sojourner Truth is now on view at Kingston City Hall. The bronze sculpture by artist Trina Greene, called “Sojourner Truth: First Step to Freedom,” depicts Truth as ...

The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...