A Supreme Court ruling preserved birthright citizenship, but Frederick Douglass shows why the debate was settled long ago.

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

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Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

Douglass’ genius is not that he saw through America’s hypocrisies; it’s that he saw the correction of those hypocrisies in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 - 1895) edits a journal at his desk, late ...

A 12-year passion project that culminated in a film about abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass’ Talbot County roots will debut Saturday at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African ...

Commuters idled in traffic jams, planners spent countless hours on studies and politicians debated for more than a decade as road crews patched and paved a crumbling Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge ...

Millicent Sparks performs in front of an image of a mural depicting the 400-year history of Africans in Talbot County, Maryland, at a previous Frederick Douglass celebration. (Courtesy of Tarence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The direct descendants of Frederick Douglass responded late Wednesday to President Trump's vague comments about the celebrated ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 169 years ago.