Book-publishing executive Dawn Davis is Bon Appetit's new top editor, taking the helm following a reckoning on race and culture at the food magazine. Davis starts at Bon Appetit on Nov. 2, Conde Nast said Thursday. Bon Appetit is one of the main brands of New York-based magazine publisher Conde Nast, which also publishes Vogue, The New Yorker and GQ. Bon Appetit's former top editor, Adam Rapoport, left in June after food writer Tammie Teclemariam tweeted out an old Halloween photo in which he wore a stereotyped Puerto Rican costume. Staffers then said the Bon Appetit had been too white-centric" and marginalized non-white stories, and pledged to make big changes.

Harriet Tubman is still known today more than 100 years after her death for her bravery, leadership and heroism. Tubman was actually born with the name Amarinta Minty Ross in 1822 to mom Harriet Green and Ben Ross. This was a way for God to speak to her, and so she would wake up from these sleeping spells having had visions visions that she reported came directly from God that would tell her what to do and where to go. Tubman eventually took 13 trips, during which she would take the train then stowaway in homes and barns of family and friends. Although Harriet Tubman could not read or write, she was probably one of the most knowledgeable people in the 19th century, Dunbar said.