On February 6, 2025, a statue of Frederick Douglass was unveiled at the Hall of Justice in Rochester. Positioned in the ...

Exactly 130 years after Frederick Douglass’ death, the Talbot County-born abolitionist and civil rights leader was honored ...

The Liberty University Art Museum is holding an art exhibit in honor of abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Brown ...

The items White photographed paint a vivid portrait of Black history in the United States. One photograph shows a piece of ...

Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

Experience the captivating one-man play Paul Robeson & The Douglass-Lincoln Debates featuring Wendell Young and Steffon Sharpless.

The speech bucked against the approach of moral suasion against slavery at the time that was popular among abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Douglass ...

Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is a time to honor the significant contributions and achievements of Black Americans throughout U.S. history. The observance has evolved over the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Historical narratives have long misrepresented the stories of the Black people in America. Black representation has often been conspicuously absent, deliberately obscured, or filtered through racist ...