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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This video offers an overview of the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" which was published in 1845, details his early life as a slave and ...

Ahead of Miami Art Week, I spoke with Black curators in Miami about the various exhibits they were planning to hold. One that particularly intrigued me was the Hampton Art Lovers’ annual Point Comfort ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist and orator, responded on Tuesday to the praise White House Chief of Staff John Kelly bestowed upon Confederate General Robert E. Lee, telling ...

One year ago today, the voices of Frederick Douglass High School students were mere footnotes after riot scenes projected worldwide from neighboring Mondawmin Mall portrayed the school as the ...

On a steamy morning in June 1881, a federal cutter slowly makes its way up the Chesapeake Bay into the Wye River. In the bow stands Frederick Douglass, his eyes scanning the shore for the landmarks he ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...

Last week, actor Danny Glover took center stage as the keynote speaker at Quinnipiac University’s Black History Month event to “explore the similarities of the #BlackLivesMatter movement and its early ...

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