What was American slavery actually like? I trust scholars and actual slaves for the truth. Frederick Douglass wrote three autobiographies that are easily available for anyone. How was he able to beat ...

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

Quentin Earl Darrington plays Frederick Douglass in La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical “3 Summers of Lincoln.” (La Jolla Playhouse) “He comes in big. He comes in hot and he stays ...

He became an expert on abolitionists and the Emancipation Proclamation. He does not perform specific speeches by Douglass, though he invokes a deeper voice, 19th century colloquialisms and many of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position ...

The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position.

August 4, 1869, Frederick Douglass spoke at the church site. That year he did his Composite Nation Speech. Neither of Salem’s A.M.E. church locations is historically marked, and I’ve been ...

Frederick Douglass once said, “Samuel R. Ward has left no successor among the colored men amongst us, and it was a sad day for our cause when he was laid low in the soil of a foreign country.” ...

As Frederick Douglass noted in his 1876 letter criticizing the statue, the figure of Alexander, ‘though rising is still on his knees and nude,’” according to the city’s website.

A House Democrat plans to propose a series of bills that seek to remove statues that she says reflect America's "shameful" past during this Black History Month.

He believes Frederick Douglass would have approved Frederick Douglass took exception to the so-called Emancipation statue, which stood in Boston’s Park Square until it was removed in 2020.

Alexandra Schwartz interviews the art historian Erin L. Thompson, author of the book “Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments,” about the stories behind various ...