Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison invites the public to join them in reading aloud Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July ...

Frederick Douglass asked a burning question in front of hundreds of abolitionists in Rochester, New York: "What to the Slave ...

HBO’s “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was This hour featuring prominent actors bringing the Black abolitionist's words to life, and ...

2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman called home.

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on Saturday, July 5, starting ...

As a parent, elected official, and school board member, I must speak to recent disruptions during our Frederick County Board of Education meetings that raised serious questions for parents if ...

As someone who escaped communist Czechoslovakia and became an American citizen, I am writing with both concern and sadness in response to the letter titled “Due process required under Constitution" ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

Once, long ago, anyone who took a college freshman English class would have encountered T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste Land. Some will remember the experience fondly, others not so much ...