"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

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

Vintage political art posters show how protesters have long used July 4th to demand civil rights, social change and economic ...

The acclaimed singer-songwriter traveled through the past and present of American roots music with her own band, the reunited quartet Our Native Daughters, and special guests on banjos including ...

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

Explore the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, a leader in abolition whose words and actions shaped the fight for justice and equality.

For its first exhibition focused on Black style, the Met’s Costume Institute celebrates the Black dandy in its galleries and at its annual gala.

The African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass would speak to these deep-rooted contradictions in an 1893 pamphlet produced by Ida B. Wells, The Reason Why The Colored American Is Not in the ...

Nearly 130 years after abolitionist, orator, and newspaper publisher Frederick Douglass addressed state lawmakers, the Senate unveiled a bust in the branch’s chamber honoring his legacy during a ...

Frederick Douglass takes his rightful place as a founding father,” said Senate President Karen Spilka of Ashland. Commissioned last year by the State House Art Commission, the Douglass bust copies a ...