A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Buried in Muskegon's historic Evergreen Cemetery, Captain Jonathan Walker is better known as The Man with the Branded Hand, a title earned for the pain he bore for the cause of freedom.

Renovation revelation: Letter linked to abolitionist found in historic NJ church The former Allen AME Church was being restored for a theater company's use.

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 ...