Surrounded by family, friends and a cloud of witnesses who could attest to the meticulous scholarship she practiced in pulling “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War” into the world, Fields-Black understood that the door she walked through a decade earlier.
Tony Norman
Award-winning writer Tony Norman is the longtime columnist and editorial writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A former Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan and an adjunct journalism professor at Chatham University, he now freelances for several local and national publications.

