Descendant of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington visits Springfield The youngest Trump doesn’t spend much time on ...

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

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

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

Muscatine Community College, in collaboration with the Alexander Clark Foundation, proudly presents the 2025 Alexander Clark Lecture Series, an annual event celebrating Clark’s enduring legacy of ...

The famous saying “the world is your oyster” was originally written by Shakespeare in 1602 to be spoken as “the world’s mine oyster” by one of his swash-buckling characters in his comedy The Merry ...

This year in State College, Mayor Ezra Nanes issued a proclamation honoring the struggles and accomplishments of African Americans. Borough Council President Evan Myers read a supportive statement ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

This year’s Alexander Clark Lecture Series features the first public reading of an original play, "Barberman: The Alexander Clark Story." ...