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

During Black History Month, Rochester residents have a significant reason to celebrate. The city is recognized as one of the five key U.S. cities central to the abolition movement, alongside Boston, ...

Titled “Identity Months Dead at DoD,” the guidance bars the Department of Defense from using official resources to support cultural awareness months.

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

The Maryland National Guard won't be able to participate in a parade honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass due to the ...

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

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 ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick ... of Douglass as a young man.The statue and park is part of a movement ...

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.

Douglass was born in 1818 as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Talbot County. After escaping from slavery, he became known as a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts ...

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