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

Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...

I am convinced that the end of abortion as a business is in sight when our movement is not only joined by but led by the ...

Works by Black artists on how labor influenced Black history and culture, curated by Faith Evans; reception 3-5 p.m. Feb. 16; ...

The book’s title, In the Light of Dawn, references the Dawn Settlement, a hopeful name given to a community founded largely ...

A commemorative marker will be revealed on February 8 at Singleton Way and South Witchduck Road in honor of Willis Augustus ...

"Many Black figures, even including Frederick Douglass, took seriously the idea ... according to Joel Schor’s biography of Garnet. "His perceptions were quick, and the ingenuousness of his ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

At the Renton Technical College up in the Highlands, the annual Black History Month Forum took place Feb. 8, bringing ...

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...