The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral ...

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

For readers seeking relief of a different sort, Amanda White offers practical advice in “Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to ...

For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

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A new temporary exhibit, “The United States Colored Troops,” opened last week at The Rolland Center for Lincoln Research at ...

As abolitionist, orator and diplomat Frederick Douglass explained ... and sold into slavery in Louisiana in 1841. In his narrative, Northup explained that his owner and their neighbors gave ...

Listen to this article In March 1968 at one of his final speeches before his murder, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He was proudly American to his core, not only staking a claim to the American dream, but enriching it for all.

“There is a false narrative that social movements happened ... to historical thought leaders like Zora Neale Hurston and Frederick Douglass to inspire dominant group members to engage in allyship.

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...