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Frederick Douglass used the words of Psalm 137 in his famous speech, ‘What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?’ For centuries, ...
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...
This year’s Frederick Douglass reading, hosted by the North Shore Juneteenth Association and sponsored by Mass Humanities, ...
Classic Black magazines on a shelf inside Willa’s Books & Vinyl on Thursday, July 10, 2025. Willa’s will close on Saturday as ...
“Professor,” a diligent young woman from Queens who described herself as Latina and applied a no-nonsense activist lens and ...
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, ...
Discover 7 remarkable books under 300 pages that showcase quality and literary value. Their concise lengths highlight the authors' exceptional craftsmanship. **Timestamps:** 00:00 Short Books? 00:53 ...
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 ...
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 ...