Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis (Little, Brown and Company, 2025) Anthony Galluzzo, Against the Vortex: Zardoz and ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

The man behind Black History Month was a Harvard scholar who felt “all Americans should understand the largely overlooked ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) teared up while reintroducing a reparations bill, taking up the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's mantel.

Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a historian and associate research scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and ...

Teachers can avail of a free professional development workshop with strategies to bring historical narratives to life. The ...