The Niles District Library has teamed up with the Niles History Center to host "The Frederick Douglass: Advocate for Equality Exhibit", which will be on display from now through Oct. 4.

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 ...

Morrison debuts with a well-rounded portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) that focuses on his early life in slavery and the support he received from his wife upon entering the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Douglass lived in Lynn from 1841 to 1847 on Harrison Court, Baldwin Street, and Newhall Street. His book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” was written in Lynn. Emily is The Item's ...

Slowing down the narrative, she writes ... Leading figures in the movement, including famed orator and former enslaved laborer Frederick Douglass and young educator Charlotte Forten, developed ...

Wells and abolitionist Fredrick Douglass as a narrative device to articulate the ties between slavery and mass incarceration arising from the limits of the 13th Amendment. Wells goes to confront ...