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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Worcester’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, is planning to publicly read a seminal speech about Independence Day and its relationship with slavery ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A 10-screen film installation on abolitionist Frederick Douglass is available for public viewing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass,” by ...