Another day, another example of how the Trump Administration’s war on the excesses of DEI and “wokeness” has morphed into a ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ...

Middletown, Connecticut has taken another step towards reckoning with it's slavery past. For the first time ever, the town ...

A formal memo from the Maryland National Guard's Joint Operations Center, dated Feb. 7, said the reserve component would be ...

Ohio-born poet Paul Laurence Dunbar will be in the spotlight on Feb. 23 as St. Paul Lutheran Church in Massillon hosts a ...

Dr. Marveta Ryan-Sams, coordinator of the Pan-African Studies Program, was in attendance of the Lunch and Learn. The ...

For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in ...

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 ...

Here, MassLive is highlighting 10 people — including educators, artists, businesspeople and advocates — identified for their ...

The Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant was supposed to show that the area is “stronger and happier when we are unified”. “I ...

Experience the captivating one-man play Paul Robeson & The Douglass-Lincoln Debates featuring Wendell Young and Steffon Sharpless.

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...