Author Thomas Fellows talks about why he believes that, in retrospect, Frederick Douglass should have gone down in history as ...

Frederick Douglass was a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the 19th century. Both men were ambassadors for their platform, the Abolitionist and Civil Rights movement. A century apart, they fought for racial ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

At a time when it feels like the president, Congress, and the judicial branches of government have collectively declared war on Black and brown America — actively reversing or dismantling civil rights ...

circa 1879: American journalist, author, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (circa 1818 - 1895). The battle over birthright citizenship rages on. On Sept. 26, the Trump Administration ...

"The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the ...