In the days leading up to the 6th Annual Juneteenth Festival Block Party presented by House of Soul, founder Nichol Stevenson promised something bigger and better. Those who attended the milestone 5th ...

On July 5, 1852, abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass expounded: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?

Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a partnership between Morehouse, the Andrew Young Center’s Higher Education in ...

Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old ...

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Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ideals — liberty, equality, democracy — and its complicity in ...

A space at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport is now dedicated to celebrating the airport's namesake.

HOWARD ZINN: Frederick Douglass, once a slave, became a brilliant and powerful leader of the anti-slavery movement. In 1852, he was asked to speak in celebration of the Fourth of July.

COMMENTARY: Why Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July speech still matters A woman walks past a mural in tribute to Frederick Douglass in the South End neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ...

Public officials are set to unveil the new Frederick Douglass Observatory at the Rochester airport on Tuesday.