The original Frederick Douglass Community Center was built in 1945. The city of Champaign relinquished functions of its playground and recreation board to the park district in 1967.

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

On December 16, 2024, Salem unveiled a statue of Abraham Lincoln downtown. The ceremony spoke of our town’s history, yet it erased the very stories that define us. Lincoln never set foot in Salem, but ...

Douglass Park signs missing names On Oct. 9, Experience Champaign-Urbana, formerly Visit Champaign County, unveiled four Champaign County African American Heritage Trail signs at Douglass Park.

On September 18, Mayor Malik D. Evans announced the return of several Frederick Douglass statues to public display after extensive restoration.

I write to provide an update on The Douglass Project in response to continuing community interest and inquiries about its progress.

A life-size statue of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland.

Interestingly, the Irish in Ireland were anti-slavery allies in the 19th century. Frederick Douglass wrote that he was transformed by the welcome he received when he visited Ireland in 1845.

Robert S. Levine’s “ The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson ” opens with an extraordinary scene not often recorded in history books. On ...

The patch of ground—where a 16-year-old Frederick Douglass famously beat down his white overseer—remains just that: A long rectangle of soggy corn stalks girded on one side by telephone wires and on ...

What has happened to the representation of the Statue of Liberty? What happened to the people in America? God is trying to tell us something. Let’s get back to what this statue represents ...

Here are the facts of the matter: The original bronze statue of Frederick Douglass continues to perch intact on his immaculately clean high octagonal pedestal.