We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

The black leather Hermès handbag made some forty years ago for the late singer and actress Jane Birkin was sold in a bidding ...

This year’s Frederick Douglass reading, hosted by the North Shore Juneteenth Association and sponsored by Mass Humanities, ...

In a rare moment of Christian ecumenism, white evangelicals, mainline protestants, Roman Catholics and Black church leaders ...

Bristol Black Collective will present a public reading of an iconic Frederick Douglass speech at Heritage State Park. What's happening in June: ...

Other people might note his alien-ness and quickly forget it, but I couldn’t unsee it. And because I couldn’t unsee his, I ...

Generation Verb, a spoken word scholastic program that uses poetry, prose, and performance to encourage self-expression, ...

As the nation prepared for its 249th birthday, Thomas Sowell, the nation’s greatest living economist, turned 95. That milestone is cause for reflection in California, Washington, D.C., and all across ...

Some on the “Juneteenth Jubilee and Freedom Walk,” which retraced the steps of enslaved people seeking freedom, say they ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Heterosexism and cissexism are pervasive, and each of us, irrespective of our own identity and expression, stands at risk of ...