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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...
A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to ...
Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans ...
Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.
If you’re at a loss for things to do in Boston in a city that's rich with history, culture, and sports, you’re probably ...
Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.
How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.
The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...
TheGrio May 16, 2025 American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s.
The “abortion abolitionist” movement wants to see the procedure eradicated and supports changing the law to grant personhood to embryos, making their destruction an act of homicide that would ...
The Lawfare Project Senior Counsel Gerard Filitti provides insight into their lawsuit alleging that DePaul University was negligent in failing to stop an anti-semitic attack. Temple University Beasley ...
A photo, circa 1870s, of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, which was removed and then restored on the U.S. National Park Service webpage. (Harvey B. Lindsley/Library of Congress) ...