The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

Below are some excerpts from a speech on the meaning of the Fourth of July delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852. Fellow-citizens, pardon ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

On July 5, 1852, the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Rochester, New York, invited Douglass, a former slave, to be the keynote ...

His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.

The Georgia chapter of a Confederacy group has filed a lawsuit against a state park over an exhibit on slavery, segregation, ...

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy package that's moving through the Senate would affect virtually every ...

A coalition of North Texas religious leaders and parents has joined a legal effort led by an activist minister to stop the ...

Texas’ DEI ban on public schools heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for final sign-off Senate Bill 12’s supporters say DEI programs use class time and public funds to promote political agendas.