The first three words of Roger Guenveur Smith’s solo show, Frederick Douglass Now, currently running at the Irish Arts Center, sound as if they might have come from Narrative of the Life of Frederick ...

Greg Lampe explores the life of the great 19th-century orator and civil rights leader. Greg Lampe, Professor Emeritus in the UW Colleges Department of Communication Arts, is interviewed by Wisconsin ...

The powerful words of Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the American Slave is the Fourth of July?” were heard Saturday in the voices of neighbors, students, teachers, newcomers and lifelong ...

After Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery at the age of 20, he became one of the most famous Black men in the country. His fame also grew around his writing, words and speeches that he gave in a ...

On July 2, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a passionate speech seeking to rouse the conscience of America in the face of slavery. Despite much progress since then, too many of his words fit frightening ...

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 ...

Early Saturday morning, June 25, a most humiliating incident occurred in our beautiful city, perpetrated against a member of the Negro race. Mr. Timothy Holmes, a representative of the National Negro ...

On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration has inspired ...

The D&C spoke with key leaders of three Black-owned publications, past and present, to get their perspective on how these news outlets impacted Rochester. Joan Coles Howard and her father ran The ...