The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

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 ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Advocates stood on the grounds of Historic Northampton to look back at history. For at least 129 years, slavery was part of the fabric of everyday life in Northampton.

Anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass first delivered this speech on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. It was part of an event to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence in ...

Several milestones are being celebrated this month by descendants of important Black figures from Maryland who helped shape ...

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, ...

At a time when it feels like the president, Congress, and the judicial branches of government have collectively declared war on Black and brown America — actively reversing or dismantling civil rights ...

circa 1879: American journalist, author, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (circa 1818 - 1895). The battle over birthright citizenship rages on. On Sept. 26, the Trump Administration ...