This year’s Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the ways work impacts “the collective experiences of Black people,” according to the Association for the Study of ...

New York’s political class, out of step as usual with the popular mood, thinks it’s still 2017, and that its job is to ...

A judge has set an extraordinary bond for a Michigan woman who is locked up and accused of leaving three children alone for ...

East Milton Elementary third-graders portrayed historic and contemporary African Americans in Living Wax Museum.

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Nantucket is home to more than 800 pre-Civil War era buildings, one of which marks an important milestone in 2025.

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

Trump went on to cite abolitionist Frederick Douglass, freedom fighter Harriett Tubman, economist Thomas Sowell, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and professional golfer Tiger Woods as ...

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