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 home, which swiftly went into contract after hitting the market last month, is in the heart of the city’s affluent Dupont ...

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 ...

To learn more about one of the region's most famous former slaves, visit the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in the district's Anacostia neighborhood. At this historical site ...

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 ...

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

from Frederick Douglass to Toni Morrison. “We’re going to be taking seriously the ways in which the critical work, the ...

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 ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell reflects on Vice President Harris’ concession speech in front of Howard University’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall and says, “Frederick Douglass knew that progress did ...

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