Members of the Frederick Douglass R-Center Rhythm Robotics are celebrating after taking home a first-place prize in a ...

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, ...

If this winter has felt unending and harsh by recent standards in Rochester, one reason is likely the fact there’s been snow ...

Our ancestors are watching us, and they’re cheering us on,” Joan Walls said addressing dinner guests Saturday at the 59th ...

The NWS has issued a lake effect snow warning with up to three feet of snow in communities along the Lake Ontario shoreline. Here's how much more snow will fall.

Harriet Ann Jacobs was born into slavery but refused to let the institution define her. Ferociously independent, Jacobs stood ...

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 ...

Between car rollovers and thick layers of ice coating much of the Rochester area, Sunday’s winter storm presented a day ...

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

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

Members of the public gathered at the Greenwich Historical Society to transcribe the writings of abolitionist Frederick ...

“What the president doesn’t understand is we are not aliens, not strangers of this land,” says Quentin Earl Darrington as Frederick Douglass in a scene. He then leads a chorus of Black men ...