A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...

There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

“Negro Life at the South," an 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson, depicted enslaved people in a D.C. courtyard. Intended to humanize them, it was coopted by slavery defenders.

Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said the millions of travelers who pass through the airport each year will be able to ...

Being an abolitionist, for me, is not about smugly or dismissively proclaiming that people shouldn’t be scared. (I don’t know any abolitionists who dismissively proclaim this, although this is the ...

Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist, minister, educator and orator, in an 1881 ...

Frederick Douglass 1852 speech both extolls principles in the Declaration of Independence (and Constitution) and condemns ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

A renowned abolitionist and author of New York Times Bestseller “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us,” Kaba notes the importance of art in movement work; not merely art for art’s sake but for its ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...