Douglass died 30 years before 25,000 hooded Klansmen marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. That same year, Thurgood Marshall graduated from Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School, en route to ...

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

In Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, author and historian David W. Blight does not hide his admiration for his subject: "There is no greater voice of America's transformation from slavery to ...

Here’s the truth about Frederick Douglass: he was an unapologetic Christian minister and a patriotic American statesman—two distinctions that the left just can’t accept.

Frederick Douglass understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken word, but also the power of the visual image — especially, his own likeness. As a result, Douglass was ...

In a little-known speech, Frederick Douglass sketched a vision of a post-racial America a century before the term was invented. Douglass, subject of a new film, spoke with uncanny precision about ...

Frederick Douglass: "Races, like individuals, must stand or fall by their own merits." Advocating that individuals rise or fall "by their merits" is derided on the Left as racist.

Anna Murray Douglass, Frederick Douglass' first wife, helped the abolitionist leader escape slavery and supported his anti-slavery work for years, according to historian Leigh Fought, author of ...

Anti-slavery activist and history-making writer and speaker Frederick Douglass is the subject of “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches,” a new documentary premiering Feb. 23 on HBO.

Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Maryland in 1838, then forged a storied career as his era’s preeminent champion of emancipation and civil rights. In his long campaign against racial ...

Frederick Douglass — the black 19th century journalist, dedicated feminist, and radical activist — might not be the most obvious cultural touchstone for President Donald Trump. And yet the ...

Local Frederick Douglass’s Fourth of July speech called out America for its hypocrisy. Trump’s takeover of the holiday shows we haven’t learned much. July 2, 2019 More than 5 years ago Summary ...