The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear.

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

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and ...

The grant for Brewer Hill Cemetery work went to the Brewer Hill Cemetery Association, a nonprofit that manages Annapolis’ ...

At a time when anti-literacy laws prevented the vast majority of enslaved people from reading, a group of free Black New ...

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture announced the installation of a striking new mural, “Frederick Douglass / Liberty” by contemporary artist Adam Himoff. The ...

Held annually on Frederick Douglass’s birthday, the decade-old collaborative initiative takes up the Colored Conventions and ...

For two years in a row, during the month of February, I’ve had dreams about Frederick Douglass. Last year, the reason was clear. My family knows I love ― like, really love ― February, because it is ...