Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.

This year’s Frederick Douglass reading, hosted by the North Shore Juneteenth Association and sponsored by Mass Humanities, ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...

Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

While July 4 is widely celebrated in the US, much of what students are taught about it leaves out the complexities of the ...