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In the feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Colin Powell presented his dubious evidence to the United ...

Frederick Douglass was 6 years old when he began his life as a slave. By the standards of slavery, Douglass was often to get favored treatment. But the realities were to include hunger ...

Frederick Douglass (who once worked at the Wye House, a short walk from where Unionville now stands) and fellow abolitionists Henry Highland Garnet (from nearby Kent County) and Harriet Tubman ...

The piece, which will be part of the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail, draws inspiration from a quote by Frederick Douglass, Sandquist said. She added that the park district ...

As a historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades, I was aware when I applied to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program ...

That image figures prominently in Isaac Julien's video installation Baltimore (2003), one of 13 transfixing works in Julien's ...

Frederick Douglass was such a prolific journalist and author, such a tireless orator and statesman, such an eloquent crusader for racial justice and the full emancipation of women, that we ...

It was a narrative by Langston Hughes with black ... distinguished black leaders like Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. DuBois. Moving into the 1960s, we see the marches, the rallies, the dramatic ...

Born in Chicago in 1918, the artist Charles White always received inspiration from the struggles and triumphs of black people—major historical figures like Frederick Douglass as well as ordinary ...