Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

Frederick’s father, as David W. Blight shows in his extraordinary new biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster), was almost certainly white, as Douglass knew ...

Frederick Douglass continues to be an irresistible subject for biographers because all of the nation's difficult, miraculous, unresolved creation myths seem to collapse into the single story of ...

With the publication of his 888-page biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” Yale University historian David Blight is shining new light on a man who overcame huge obstacles to ...

Douglass (whose real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born of a slave mother and a white father, unknown, on a plantation at Tuckahoe, Md., in 1817, and the story of his ...

HBO’s “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was This hour featuring prominent actors bringing the Black abolitionist's words to life, and ...

While the story of the civil rights was one filled with so much strife for African Americans, the walking tour focused on the positive experiences and achievements Frederick Douglass had despite ...

It was colorized and used as the cover image of David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” published by Simon & Shuster in 2018.