How else to explain the decision by the Maryland National Guard to withdraw from a celebration for American abolitionist ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Andre McCallum has spent over a year offering opportunities for kids in Toledo to learn the sport of boxing at Toledo ARK's gym on Fassett Street. Now the program is tipping off with a ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Frederick Douglass Park is entering a new chapter. The addition of a family center provides opportunities for connection and recreation. The park, on 80 acres in the ...

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, ...

On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman called home. By Shayla Martin Memphis. Atlanta. Birmingham. There are certain ...

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 ...