"What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" posed Frederick Douglass to a gathering of 500-600 abolitionists in Rochester, N.Y., in 1852. Admission to the speech was 12 cents, and the crowd at the ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old when he ...

What is the meaning of the 2,500-year old Hebrew psalm for oppressed groups? Gebhard Fugel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader ...

At a time when it feels like the president, Congress, and the judicial branches of government have collectively declared war on Black and brown America — actively reversing or dismantling civil rights ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Saturday, July 5, ArtsConnect Topeka hosted an event speaking to the conflicted feelings some have around the Fourth of July. The event, hosted at the Brown V. Board of Education ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’ adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration has inspired ...

*On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass stood before a crowd in Rochester, New York, and delivered what would become one of the most searing indictments of American hypocrisy ever spoken. In ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration has inspired ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Guest Commentary: Frederic J.

On July 5, 1852, the formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his scathing Independence Day speech about the paradox of patriotism in an America that had passed its second federal ...