Douglass embraced the Constitution in his fight for African-American rights. It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago ...

"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Three years later, after a speaking tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Douglass published the first issue of "The North Star ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families that long preserved them.

These impactful quotes from African American leaders need to be both ... from powerful Black leaders such as Toni Morrison, ...

A thunderous new musical, American Prophet, whose script adapts Frederick Douglass’s extraordinary writing and oratory, ended its run at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., last weekend.