The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...

A celebration of Frederick Douglass comes as many worry Trump will turn back the clock on diversity and inclusion ...

KCAU 9 is celebrating the highlighting Siouxland's African-American history-makers of Siouxland, both past and present with a ...

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

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

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 ...

Educator and historian Carter G. Woodson was the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

What does that mean? WEATHERBY: So I got this title from a Frederick Douglass autobiography. So it really tries to encapsulate that feeling of what it means to be a Black American. And so when ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

The celebratory week was set in February to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and President ... and influential abolitionist. His 1845 autobiography is still taught in U.S. schools ...