As the nation pauses to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., I felt the need to commemorate some of our own ...

Last evening Mr. FREDERICK DOUGLASS addressed a very large and brilliant ... men of bibles and prayer-books, and took refuge with men of tomahawks. They found more of the milk of human kindness ...

We're a little biased, but once you read all of these reasons why college is better in the South, we think you'll agree too.

These monuments to King must not be the only ones. I had the pleasure of being honored at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury as the new publisher and editor of the Bay State Banner, along with my ...

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Rev. Haynes, an educator and social activist who was awarded the 2022 Presidential Lifetime Achievement Leadership Award in ...

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost in 1667. Orlando Reade, author of a new book on the poem’s legacy, spoke to Judy Cox.

In her book, when activists are ... the more that you know about their real life, the more you can use that as the building blocks to create that character.” Susan B. Anthony (Krista Joy Serpa) and ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama on April 12, 1963, for demonstrating without a permit. During ...

In 1894, at Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Frederick Douglass delivered the last great speech ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Booklovers have long debated whether politics belong in online book communities. Readers and authors, including Jodi Picoult, tell us their thoughts.