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 ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American ...

Honoring the trailblazers whose courage, innovation, and resilience left an indelible mark on history and continue to inspire ...

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 ...

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

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

If Donald Harris’ account of his family history is correct, it is likely that, as was true with American abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass, the Black mother in question – and Ha ...

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 ...