At a time when toppled statues are being remounted, an art critic and an illustrator examine, edit and unpack three ...

The Mint abandoned civil rights concepts for the semi-quincentennial coins, favoring traditional patriotic symbols.

DeMarcus Surratt, a Bellarmine University signee, led No. 2-ranked Frederick Douglass over Butler basketball in the King of ...

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 ...

The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to ...

The list of Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments is astonishing—respected orator, famous writer, abolitionist, civil rights leader, presidential appointee—and even more so when you consider that he ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 170 years ago.

WORCESTER - Worcester plans to honor the significant role that Frederick Douglass played as a speaker in the city in March. Douglass spoke in various Worcester meeting halls and churches, beginning as ...

Just days after the anniversary of one of Frederick Douglass' most iconic speeches, people are drawing attention to the woman who made his work possible. Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass' ...