WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday named its press gallery after ...

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

The effort, led by Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., was developed over the past year as he and his staff explored ways to recognize influential Americans - including Black leaders - throughout the Capitol ...

If you have never heard of Syracuse abolitionist Samuel Ringgold Ward, you should. The great Frederick Douglass was in awe of him. Once while standing beside Ward at a Free Soil Party meeting in ...

Frederick Douglass now has his name etched into one of the most powerful rooms in the United States.

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 ...

Hundreds of people walked 50 miles from Wilson to Raleigh alongside Bishop William J. Barber II in what is being called the ...

It was a tense confrontation at a Senate hearing that was called to scrutinize the immigration chiefs as they carry out one ...

This country has long elevated Martin Luther King, Jr. as the admirable voice of peace, while positioning Malcolm X as dangerous, divisive and radical. This contrast was never accidental.

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

In conservative and swing states, teachers, moms and women candidates are taking back local education — and sending a warning ...

As part of Black History Month, there will be a documentary about Frederick Douglass shown at the New Britain Public Library ...