This historic townhouse in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s desirable Dupont Circle neighborhood hosted the wedding of ...

And it was significant that a former slave was famous. [Sarah Lewis] Frederick Douglass understood the power of his literature as a tactic of liberation. A man born enslaved who rose to become a ...

The son of an enslaved mother and white father he never knew, Frederick Douglass lived with his grandmother on a Maryland plantation until age eight. He later worked as a house servant ...

On4, 1960, Ruby Bridges began her first day of school at William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. What's historic about ...

Jun 30, 2024 Jun 30, 2024 Updated Oct 6, 2024 MANCHESTER — Eleven reverent souls stood in City Hall Plaza on Saturday, reading a keynote address given by Frederick Douglass, a famous African ...

The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife ... Douglass was one of the most ...

Yale University’s African American Studies Professor Daphne Brooks intends to use the performer’s wide-ranging repertoire, ...

No Cowards in Our Band,” will be performed, 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at Hudson Hall, featuring actor Masud Olufani as Douglass.

Idina Menzel took her teenage son Walker as her date to the Los Angeles premiere of "Wicked" over the weekend. The mother-son ...

The Frederick Douglass theme resonated with many ... with the proceeds to benefit the John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, today known as the Chipman Cultural Center. The money raised was ...

SALISBURY, MD - A new mural depicting Civil Rights activist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Salisbury ... Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, now known as the Chipman Cultural Center.