Kevin Douglass Greene, great-great grandson of abolitionist, author and social reformer Frederick Douglass, speaking at School of the Future on Thursday, Feb. 15. (Patriciah Hawkins) From Philly and ...

Kevin Douglass Green, the great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, is spending the week visiting Black-owned businesses to promote literacy and legacy.

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“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” is an autobiography published in 1845 that focuses on the orator and abolitionist’s first 20 years of life spent living in slavery in Maryland. A desire ...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s ceremony Thursday awarding the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, which it co-sponsors with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, ...

I didn’t know what to expect from author Sidney Morrison’s appearance last month at the Main Library. Fresh from releasing his book Frederick Douglass, Morrison was in town for “Writers Unplugged,” an ...

Born into slavery, abolitionist Frederick Douglass didn’t have a single day of formal education in his life and yet became one of the greatest orators in history, explained historian David W. Blight ...

The ancestors of Nettie Washington Douglass still have stories to teach us. She just hopes we are ready to listen. Nettie Washington Douglass, descendant of three legendary Black Americans, was born ...

He became the great black leader of his day, honored by multiple American presidents who frequently sought his counsel. If you read his autobiography, "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," you will ...