Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday named its press gallery after Frederick Douglass, 150 years after ...

The renaming of the press gallery, spearheaded by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., was conceived over the last year after the ...

For the first time, a press gallery on Capitol Hill is named after a journalist: the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

If you have never heard of Syracuse abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward, you should. The great Frederick Douglass was in awe of ...

The U.S. House of Representatives’ newly dedicated Frederick Douglass Press Gallery is drawing praise from Rep. Nancy Mace, who called the honor a fitting tribu ...

Kevin Douglass Green, the great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, is spending the week visiting Black-owned businesses ...

An unsung hero, Ruggles helped shape the abolition movement, aided hundreds of enslaved people seeking freedom, and opened ...

Frederick Douglass re-enactor Darius Wallace on Saturday delivered a speech at the Historic Lehigh County Courthouse, where the real Douglass spoke in 1870. See photos below. Scholar and historical re ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

Community members will have the opportunity to help preserve historic records this week as the Tompkins County Public Library ...

HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ON A WHALING SHIP. THE WHALING CITY ...