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 ...

The Transportation Security Administration has a long list of banned items. Some have conditions and some require you check ...

In his own words, Douglas reveals the back story behind the 1975 hit film.

Frederick Douglass gave a passionate speech seeking to rouse the conscience of America in the face of slavery. Despite much ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

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, ...

Adams, and the reversal of progress for Black women in the military and media, are part of a larger pattern of erasing Black ...

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

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