The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

Despite apprehensions that the information might endanger his freedom, in 1845 Douglass published his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Three years ...

Her lecture, inspired by the quote from Wendell Phillips in the 1845 introduction to Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American ...

Then you realize the producers have made Frederick Douglass sound a little like John C ... are meant to “inoculate children against the woke and anti-American leftist narrative taught in most schools.

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn ...

By John Koblin and Benjamin Mullin A new documentary about Frederick Douglass debuts on HBO ... players compete for prize money. But the narrative of “The Sims Spark’d” emerges from how ...

Hanne Friis and Lynda Benglis play off one another at Locks. At Rowan, Wendel White presents an evocative, era-spanning ...

In 2018, the Black father of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, the Jamaican-born professor Donald Harris, wrote that the family was descended from white enslaver Hamilton Brown. Brown ...