The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the City of Rochester are working on plans to establish a cultural corridor downtown in honor of Frederick Douglass. The proposed project is expected to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fairhaven filmmaker Alyssa Botelho is debuting her short film "Sweet Freedom." The movie is about Mary "Polly" Johnson, a confectioner who also sheltered people escaping slavery. A new short film is ...