African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

"Many Black figures, even including Frederick Douglass, took seriously the idea ... No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance," he told speakers at a convention ...

President Donald Trump is waging an all-out assault on education by issuing executive orders designed to privatize schooling, ...

The Eagles' Super Bowl win and back-to-back holidays have made it one big love-fest in the city of Brotherly Love, but it’s ...

By Nika White, courtesy of Entrepreneur via newsbreak.com This Black History Month , we can learn a lot about how to move ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

Morrison’s “Beloved” and Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” have been added back to the HUM syllabus this spring, as ...