Like Lincoln, King believed his fight for racial equality to be rooted in America's founding vision—in her "sacred heritage.

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

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

On Feb. 4, 1864, Frederick Douglass visited Newtown, and spoke at Newtown Hall, now known as Newtown Theatre.

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

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

Clay Douglass, a traveling salesman from Wisconsin who has experienced the highs and lows of the American Dream, came to Michigan in the past few months in search of a job and more opportunities ...

Grant. Portrait of Frederick Douglass Vintage portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in ...

Local prosecutors alleged that the laborers are victims of human trafficking who were living in “slavery-like conditions” under contractor Jinjiang Group, but offered no evidence to back up their ...

Slave owners usually gave them bigger portions of food, gifted them alcohol and provided extra days of rest. Those gestures, however, were not made out of generosity. As abolitionist, orator and ...

“It’s a form of modern slavery,” said Damilola Adekola, co-founder of Hopes Haven Foundation, a Nigerian NGO that helps track women in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries where abuse of ...