The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...
Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...
A celebration of Frederick Douglass comes as many worry Trump will turn back the clock on diversity and inclusion ...
After the Department of Defense called "identity months" like Black History Month "dead," National Guard units reportedly ...
In what feels like the dwindling hours of this democracy, I’m painfully aware of the erosion of civil rights gains.
The Liberty University Art Museum is holding an art exhibit in honor of abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Brown ...
Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled ...
African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and ...
Having published the first modern biography of Frederick Douglass in 1948, Quarles was a leading exponent of “Black agency,” the concept that African Americans had been active shapers ...