People don’t even have to thank you,” said said Jim Weber, the group’s commander. “I see it in their eyes… that says it all.” ...

Surrounded by glittering green, gold and red decorations, and among frequent and overlapping choruses of "Merry Christmas," ...

Frederick Douglass re-enactor Darius Wallace on Saturday delivered a speech at the Historic Lehigh County Courthouse, where the real Douglass spoke in 1870. See photos below. Scholar and historical re ...

Douglass Week will take place Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 in Massachusetts. The event will celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass and his family, according to a community announcement. The week will ...

At a time when it feels like the president, Congress, and the judicial branches of government have collectively declared war on Black and brown America — actively reversing or dismantling civil rights ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old when he ...

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their full humanity. (For the previous article in this series, see here.) “The ...

From teaching himself how to read to enacting what scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. described as “one of the most unusual escape stories in all of the literature about slavery,” Frederick Douglass’ life ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

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The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) reintroduces a renaming resolution Friday — Frederick Douglass ...

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 a ...