In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...

When Frederick Douglass spoke in Cork on October 23, 1845, his message was clear and uncompromising. The formerly enslaved ...

The first three words of Roger Guenveur Smith’s solo show, Frederick Douglass Now, currently running at the Irish Arts Center, sound as if they might have come from Narrative of the Life of Frederick ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

On July 2, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a passionate speech seeking to rouse the conscience of America in the face of slavery. Despite much progress since then, too many of his words fit frightening ...

WEST CHESTER–Mayor Lillian DeBaptiste revived the spirit of Frederick Douglass, where he gave his final speech at West Chester University, with a spirited presentation of her own, on October 2.

A leader in the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass gave one commencement speech in his life. That was in Hudson, where ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The community now has a space where they can watch planes take off and land and learn about the legacy of Frederick Douglass. Public officials dropped the curtain behind the ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell reflects on Vice President Harris’ concession speech in front of Howard University’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall and says, “Frederick Douglass knew that progress did ...