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.

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

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 “Quaker Comet” Was the Greatest Abolitionist You’ve Never Heard Of Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation’s first radicals to argue for an end to slavery ...

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) ...

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 ...

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. In a ceremony at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad ...

As prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore explains, criminal justice reforms should “unravel rather than widen the net of social control through criminalization.” In the household debt context, ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Dozens of people gathered Wednesday to celebrate the legacy of abolitionist and author Austin Steward during an annual event at the Arnett Branch Library. Steward gave the ...