At the first State of the University Address of the academic school year, Howard University student leaders discussed topics ...

But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He ...

The last bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly this year commended the Winchester Host Lions Club’s 100 years of ...

When Harvard professor John Stauffer published “Giants,” his dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, in 2008, he included a reference to the fact that the young Lincoln had a ...

To Rose Wilder Lane, African Americans' achievements were all the more amazing given their disadvantaged starting point.

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn ...

The struggle against slavery is a pivotal chapter in Black history. Figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass didn't just escape slavery; they became leading voices for freedom.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Rochester newspaper that highlighted issues and accomplishments in the Black community during some of the city’s most turbulent times is now available online. The Frederick ...

Ford's life and accomplishments ... highlighting those who fought for human rights. He painted Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks and more. His painting of Harriet Tubman is now used in textbooks ...

by Barbara Kingsolver 86 Frederick Douglass, by David W. Blight 62 10:04, by Ben Lerner 87 Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters 63 Veronica, by Mary Gaitskill 88 The Collected Stories of Lydia ...