A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Detroit (code name “Midnight”) and Windsor, Ontario, are rich in Underground Railroad history. These are some of the most ...

After the Department of Defense called "identity months" like Black History Month "dead," National Guard units reportedly ...

Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...

In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

Let’s draw on the defiant wisdom of Frederick Douglass as Trump carries out a blitzkrieg against democracy in the US.

“This trip is using lessons from the Underground Railroad to teach humanity,” says Walker, who has been leading tours for ...

When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

In Rochester, New York, the last stop on the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass published the abolitionist newspaper The North Star, naming it after the icon followed by so many escaped ...