Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of ...

With the Supreme Court’s decision in this case, yet another dagger is aimed at the very heart of the Constitution.

Thinking’s our whole thing. A company that promises—however jokily—to do your thinking for you is, not even subtly, also ...

Other people might note his alienness and quickly forget it, but I couldn’t unsee it. And because I couldn’t unsee his, I ...

Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

Join the Greater Holyoke Council For Human Understanding to celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass with a community reading of one of his most famous speeches.Here is ...