Who can rightly claim Frederick Douglass as one of their own? As we look back on Black History Month, let’s remember that it was also the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Douglass, orat… ...

The newly discovered letter written by Frederick Douglass in ... he hoped that the Emancipation statue would empower African Americans to ... Newport University and the author or editor of 17 ...

A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move from the atrium of a government office building to Capitol Hill’s Emancipation ...

To the Times: This is in response to the Letter To The Editor by Tommy White published Tuesday (“Freind makes misleading claims about attacks on statues,” Daily Times, 15 Sept. 2020). I… ...

A debate over the statue of Lincoln and a freed slave in Washington, D.C., led two history professors to discover Frederick Douglass' letter, which could sway some opinions on the matter.

In an 1876 letter to the editor about the Emancipation Statue in Lincoln Park, Douglass observed, “Perhaps no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth of any subject which it might be ...

The removal of Confederate monuments across the country has prompted debates about other statues that misrepresent Civil War history. One of these is Washington, D.C.’s Emancipation Memorial, or ...

Two history professors’ text-message debate led to the discovery of a long-forgotten letter showing how Frederick Douglass really felt about a statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave that’s now ...

A debate over the statue of Lincoln and a freed slave in Washington, D.C., led two history professors to discover Frederick Douglass' letter, which could sway some opinions on the matter.