| 单词 | Douglass |
| 例句 | When Elizabeth Cady Stanton found out about the marriage, she wrote Douglass a letter of congratulations. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Without his consent, they also nominated Frederick Douglass for vice president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “I wish I had that Frederick Douglass book.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, it was as Douglass that he became himself, defined himself. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But the other two, Chet Douglass and Bobby Zane, were vocal enough, complaining shrilly about school regulations, the danger of stomach cramps, physical disabilities they had never mentioned before. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For Sturm und Drang, there’s not much to beat the peroration of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Fourth of July address. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Chet Douglass,” I said uncertainly, “is a sure thing for it.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s when Mr. Douglass came and took me from Ma, walked high up on the stage with me, and held me up in the air over his, head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I saw this vastness in the students chopping it up in front of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, where Muhammad Ali had addressed their fathers and mothers in defiance of the Vietnam War. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Chet Douglass shouted, throwing himself around my legs, knocking me down. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Wary of more bad press, Stanton wanted James Mott or Frederick Douglass to preside. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Now I became not just good but exceptional, with Chet Douglass my only rival in sight. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Douglass came north to escape and find work in the shipyards; a big fellow in a sailor's suit who, like me, had taken another name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Frederick Douglass said he hopes so many people get freed and mash their hands onto the Liberty Bell that a shiny spot, bright as gold, gets worned into the brass. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, the outspoken leader of the African-American community for several decades, had died only months before the Atlanta speech, leaving a vacuum that the ambitious Washington quickly filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We stopped at a red light at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 125th and I glanced over at Vega. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She was trying laboriously to read Mr. Douglass’s book, but was yet to get through the first page of the preface. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z "Yes, I have, Brother Tarp. And thanks for the portrait of Douglass." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At first, he had worked at that jacked-up grocery store on Frederick Douglass Boulevard and 127th, but he soon left that and started working at this barbershop that used to be on St. Nick Av’. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z By my second year, it was natural for me to spend a typical day mediating between Frederick Douglass’s integration into America and Martin Delany’s escape into nationalism. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z When Mr. Frederick Douglass is speechifying he says that the second hardest step in making yourself free is the first one that you take. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z In honor of Ezekial Freeman—what a handsome name her friend had chosen for himself—she bought Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The older one, living here in Talbot County, would be called Frederick Douglass after a name change or two. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She also sent Anthony a letter, which she wanted her to sign, inviting Douglass to speak at the upcoming National Woman Suffrage Association meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Leading the procession was the Reverend Frederick Douglass Reese, himself a schoolteacher. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what I call a peroration—though heaven knows where Douglass’s hosts would have been looking as he delivered it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He was an avid abolitionist, who helped Frederick Douglass escape from federal marshals in 1859. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Sometimes I sat watching the watery play of light upon Douglass' portrait, thinking how magical it was that he had talked his way from slavery to a government ministry, and so swiftly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Douglass was not invited to speak at the convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z To soften the effect of his speech, Douglass offered some kind words about Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She briefly told how Douglass’s words had helped change the nation. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Chet Douglass, leaning against the side of the Prize Table, continued to blow musical figures for his own enlightenment. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Detective Douglass examines Justyce’s face—which makes him feel like a cockroach under a magnifying glass. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was then that Frederick Douglass, a civil rights leader who had escaped from slavery ten years before, asked to address the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The “cruel hand” that Frederick Douglass spoke of more than 150 years ago has appeared once again. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “How about Frederick Douglass and his North Star newspaper that helped free the slaves—I mean, the enslaved Africans?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I had always been a good one, although I wasn’t really interested and excited by learning itself, the way Chet Douglass was. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But if Mr. Douglass is near smart as folks say, seems to me he’d’ve had the sense to aim me out the window hisself. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z First off ’cause they’re always telling us how smart Mr. Frederick Douglass is. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Johnson had just been reading the “Lady of the Lake,” and at once suggested that my name be “Douglass.” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Detective Douglass continues: “Did you have any contact with either Trey Filly or Bradley Mathers on the night of May twentieth?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Douglass smiled and asked whether granting women the right to vote would change the nature of man and woman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z King was followed at the pulpit by the Reverend Frederick Douglass Reese, president of Selma’s black teachers’ association. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sight and a scar that’ll be with me the rest of my life, right ’long with that trouble twixt me and Mr. Frederick Douglass. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Lyddie took to copying out passages from Mr. Douglass and the Bible to paste on her looms. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She never missed an antislavery convention, and she became friends with writers and other social reformers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I sat now facing the portrait of Frederick Douglass, feeling a sudden piety, remembering and refusing to hear the echoes of my grandfather's voice. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This tendency is what led Frederick Douglass to declare that “power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I said, “But, Ma, how come everybody keeps telling me ’bout what I done to Mr. Douglass that got all the bears and wolfs coming to the Settlement looking for something to eat?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z In nonfiction, I spot a single copy of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And now returning to my desk I noticed his gift of Douglass' portrait was gone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My class was American Literature, a lecture about Frederick Douglass in a mostly empty auditorium, and it was incredibly difficult to stay awake. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “They didn’t have books by Aptheker, Du Bois, or Frederick Douglass,” recalled a member of Local 22, and added proudly, “But we had them at our library.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “The autobiography of a black American called Frederick Douglass.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It would have got tied up with his name same way mine’s tied up with Mr. Frederick Douglass! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She told them about Frederick Douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z With music by George Cory and lyrics by Douglass Cross, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” was first published in 1954. Ralph Sharon, Jazz Pianist Who Accompanied Tony Bennett, Dies at 91 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The leveraging of the songs by abolitionists inspired Douglass to think of them as "allies." Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Smith has specialized in one-man shows charting the life of great black figures, from Frederick Douglass to Bob Marley, and here his theatrical chops and bravura performance make it essential, if difficult viewing. LA riots on film: the projects marking the 25th anniversary of an uprising 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z “It will have a handcrafted quality to it,” said Douglass Alligood, the BIG partner in charge of the project, adding that he hoped the building would convey “spiritual uplift” in keeping with Lee’s example. National Juneteenth Museum Takes Shape in Fort Worth, Texas 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Bolden skillfully follows Douglass as he finds his voice as a speaker, writer and newspaper publisher who breaks away, during the 1840s, from the pacifist secessionism of his abolitionist mentors. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z On Aug. 6, 1845, Frederick Douglass set sail on a speaking tour of England and Ireland to promote the cause of antislavery. The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z She was Miss May Sutton, and she won Wimbledon in 1905, wresting the title from the defending champion, Miss K. Douglass, “in decisive fashion,” The Times reported. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z A letter from Frederick Douglass thanking Trump for his compliment and for making sure black people don’t get into college too easily, which would spoil them. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The gospel according to Donald 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Douglass, you know you're a bloody civilian, a lanky fisherman with sallow skin festooned with hungry veins. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z One editor, he recalled, argued against it because his grandmother, who counted herself an expert on 19th-century literature, had never heard of Douglass. Charles F. Harris, 81, Dies; Led Effort to Publish Work by Black Writers 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Douglass lived in Rochester for 25 years, the Democrat and Chronicle reports, where he ran and published The North Star, an influential anti-slavery newspaper. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z “Mrs. Wagner is briefly going to meet Frederick Douglass,” Ms. Brooks said while giving a preview Tuesday. Gracie Mansion Updates Its Art With Diversity 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z White Rochester was scandalized when Griffiths moved into the Douglass home, an arrangement that spawned rumors of a romantic link between patron and orator. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Key supporting turns include Dylan J. Fleming as Douglass’s laconic associate Emperor and Josh Adams as Brown’s paranoid sidekick Henri. Review | Theater Alliance, 1st Stage sets tensions between historical visionaries 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Legs crossed and posing in a suit, Douglass, one of the most photographed people of the 19th century, countered stereotypes with professorial dignity. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z I “read” David Blight’s Frederick Douglass biography last summer on lengthy bike rides on quiet roads in Santa Barbara under summer skies and overhanging trees. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Trump was also criticized for comments he made during Black History Month when he spoke about Frederick Douglass as if he were still alive, though he died 120 years ago. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z We get to see Frederick Douglass approach Lincoln on the subject of black suffrage, and Mary Todd Lincoln press him about women’s right to vote. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The provenance of his Douglass collection is unclear. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z A magisterial glow pervades Myers’s posthumous biography, which shows how important reading was to Douglass. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Jeffrey Wright and others bring to life the quintet of key speeches by Douglass, who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist, renowned orator and writer. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z So Douglass, my friend, don't take my bald head and potbelly as signs of poverty. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z He researched Douglass’s life extensively and portrayed the abolitionist giving his famous speech of July 4, 1852: “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.” What happened when D.C. chose a white artist to create the official Marion Barry statue 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z They offer insights not just into Douglass, Dr. Blight said, but also into his 44-year marriage to Anna Murray, a free Black woman who helped him escape from slavery in 1838. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z In November, a bronze statue of Douglass was dedicated at the University of Maryland in College Park. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Douglass, your scrunched face suggests you don't know the activist I am talking about. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Brown did indeed appeal to Douglass, a friend who once said that Brown “though a white gentleman is, in sympathy, a Black man,” and to Tubman, who he had sought out a year earlier. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z During Douglass’s lifetime, most girls in Korea were not allowed to read. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “This plan worked well,” the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in his autobiography, adding, “the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash.” Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z An inkpot-looking thing sits nearby on the table, but Douglass seems to be writing in red. 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z As a gifted orator and writer, Douglass could sometimes tell stories “long after the fact that sidestepped ambiguities or conflicts,” Levine writes. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “It’s like going around with a celebrity,” Ms. Douglass said. Oldest Living Yoga Celebrity Tells All 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, of course, claimed the message of the psalm for enslaved African Americans. Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Defining image — the magic of identity — was central to the strategy of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, writer and abolitionist leader. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” asked abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his famous address in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1852. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z David W. Blight is a professor of American history at Yale and the author of “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2018. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In this, he extended the work of nineteenth-century black thinkers such as Frederick Douglass, who quickly recognized the power of photographic portraits to represent black peoples’ full humanity. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Is it too sentimental of me to see Douglass pouring his lifeblood into his work — literally writing from the heart? 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z There are also handwritten personal narratives by two of his sons, including one called “Some Incidents of the Home Life of Frederick Douglass.” Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Douglass’s magnanimity through these 20 searing minutes of American history is as astonishing and surpassing as Anderson’s poise and grace some 60 years later. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z One of Cora Handy’s daughters, Cornelia Douglass, would work as an administrator in the New York state unemployment insurance office. For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Douglass’s quote from the show is taken from an address he gave in 1881 at Storer College, a school founded for freed slaves after the Civil War in the town of Harpers Ferry. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z None of it takes away from the might and purpose of each performance in this special that at long last, and appropriately, recognizes Douglass starring role in our nation's story. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Douglass was just 20 years old when, on Sept. 3, 1838, he dressed up as a sailor and stole out of Baltimore carrying borrowed freedom documents. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z But the most interesting part of the tour was seeing a row of houses Douglass bought late in life in the 1890s. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Dependent upon abolitionist charity for his family’s daily bread, Douglass nonetheless chafed under a stifling Garrisonian orthodoxy that required adherents to embrace pacifism and abstain from politics. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Signers included 68 women and 32 men, including Frederick Douglass. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Douglass, if water is dirty, you throw it away. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Brother Douglass and Dr. King experienced seismic events during their lifetimes. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z While you’re at it, I’ve been trying to get in touch with Frederick Douglass, can you invite him to the meeting too? Jimmy Fallon (as Trump) Meets the Press 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Slavery was too monstrous for what Douglass decried as the “whines of compromise.” A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The other is Showtime's series adaptation of James McBride's "The Good Lord Bird," set to debut on Aug. 9, in which Diggs portrays the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z The interlocutors include Abigail Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass and, finally, Abraham Lincoln, with whom Adams briefly overlapped in his postpresidential years in Congress. ‘JQA’ Review: Fictional History That Resonates Today 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z The center welcomes visitors with life-size bronze statues of five of the women organizers, as well as Douglass. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “It will kill you, and it will serve no purpose,” Douglass says. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z If the Douglass quotes throughout “Burning Sands” are sometimes ploddingly obvious, they’re nevertheless on point. ‘Burning Sands’ tackles the camaraderie and contradictions of HBCU frat life 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This was the voice of marches and rallies and Frederick Douglass oratory. How Sean Wilentz's history 'The Politicians and the Egalitarians' resonates 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job, that is being recognized more and more, I notice,” Trump said, referring to Douglass, who died in 1895, in the present tense. Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Dr. Evans invited him to stop by the house and see his Douglass collection. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Only two of the figures depicted in this small show are widely recognizable, and they are two of the most recognizable subjects in the history of American portraiture: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. The Eerie Anonymity of a Show of African-American Portraiture at the Met 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The poem is in the voice of Douglass’ second wife. Ishion Hutchinson on his poetry and the inspiration of Lee 'Scratch' Perry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Kai, Douglass, it seems my grammar has become too heavy for you. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Penning’s Anthony is devastated when Douglass presses for the rights of blacks, in the proposed 15th Amendment to the Constitution, without demanding that women’s suffrage be written into the document, as well. Two heroes of 19th-century America seek justice. They get none in ‘The Agitators.’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Along the way, there are encounters the playwright dramatizes with the likes of Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass and others. Alexander Hamilton had his life turned into a musical. Now, John Quincy Adams gets his turn, in a new play. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z This year marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He writes that Douglass found what he was looking for in the autobiographical “Confessions” of Augustine and Rousseau. Art’s Greatest Enemy Might Not Be Science 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z When she ran for president in 1872, Frederick Douglass was named as her running mate, but as Sohn writes, “Douglass was never consulted.” ‘The Man Who Hated Women’ Is Mostly About the Women He Hated 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass told the crowd, “Fellow citizens, the fourteenth day of April, 1865, of which this is the eleventh anniversary, is now and will ever remain a memorable day in the annals of this Republic.” Lincoln’s assassination: Terrorist plot or crackpot conspiracy? 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z It imbues the words with an extra weight that is not lost on the viewer or those channeling Douglass' words. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s a man with a nagging mandate from Douglass to do the right thing. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Budiansky quotes Chief Justice Edward Douglass White’s comment to Holmes that “he didn’t know any man in the country who had so little reputation in proportion to what he had done.” The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z The Rev. G. Douglass Lewis, a friend of the bride’s family and past president of the Wesley Theological Seminary, performed the ceremony. Erin Hatch, Benjamin Thomas 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z To play the character of Jay, he grew out his hair, which now sports a gray streak — his “Frederick Douglass hair,” he quipped, pulled back into pigtails when we spoke. A Bigger Canvas for Jayson Musson Includes Puppets and Picasso 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Douglass, drink your ogogoro and don't ask who will pay back the loan, please. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Michael Sims, whose books include “The Adventures of Henry Thoreau,” is writing a book about the young Frederick Douglass. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In much of the art, Douglass is less subject than creative prompt. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z After Mr. Douglass set up the museum group, more than 100 people registered to keep informed of the visits to the Met that he regularly schedules. Special Section: Fine Arts: Social Networking Among Young Arts Professionals 2011-10-22T14:06:08Z The persuasive genius of Frederick Douglass, of Abraham Lincoln, of Ida B. Wells, of Cesar Chavez, sprang from a mastery of this language, and a perception of its application to a previously unimaginable future. Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, an American abolitionist and orator, was born as an enslaved person in February 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z And it wasn’t just white women: There is material on Sojourner Truth, and Anna Murray-Douglass, the wife of Frederick Douglass, whose paid labor, the show notes, helped support her husband’s political work. Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The scholar Arnold Rampersad placed him alongside Frederick Douglass and Richard Wright in the pantheon of black cultural influences. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z Meanwhile, her son sat upstairs in a writing class for older children about the life of abolitionist and onetime slave Frederick Douglass. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The news may be much out of date, For F. Douglass is notably late. Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Another son, Charles Remond Douglass, was a kind of family historian, attesting in particular to the role the whole family played in Douglass’s endeavors. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z “Every few years, you will see small groups of Douglass letters come up at auction,” she said. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z He had just published “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” an instant best seller that, along with his powerful oratory, had made him a celebrity in the growing abolition movement. The Uneasy Alliance Between Frederick Douglass and White Abolitionists 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass recalls in his 1845 slave narrative how witnessing the serial whippings of his Aunt Hester impacted him “with awful force.” A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Together with her sister, Eliza, Griffiths relieved the Douglasses of an enormous financial burden by purchasing the mortgage of the family home. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Several of the books he listed this year, including “There There,” “Asymmetry,” and “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” appeared on The Times’s list of the 10 best books of 2018. Barack Obama’s Favorite Book of 2018 Was ‘Becoming.’ Here’s What Else He Liked. 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z He ended up with much more: a home that celebrates Baltimore and Black culture while exemplifying the principles of its former owner, Frederick Douglass. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Inside a nearby brick building, a small museum’s exhibits celebrate Douglass and Isaac Myers, a free African American who was influential in the 19th-century labor movement. For a better sense of Baltimore, get out of the Inner Harbor and head to Fells Point 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “Yesterday afternoon while the body of Wm. Keith, colored, was being interred in Douglass cemetery, the mother of the deceased fainted,” it reads. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “The Douglass moment is kind of an unending moment in the fight for justice,” Ms. Bernier said, noting that even late in life, in a reactionary time, Douglass never despaired. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z The two-year lecture tour to Ireland and Britain had been arranged to help promote the abolitionist cause abroad and to help Douglass — who had just published his autobiography — avoid recapture by his former owner. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z “Right antislavery action is that which deals the severest deadliest blow upon slavery that can be given at that particular time,” Douglass’s endorsement went. The Man Who Mapped the West, and the Wife Who Made Him Famous 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He also included footage of local bards singing songs of poetry and protest, wild songs that revealed, as Frederick Douglass found in the spirituals of black slaves, "the highest joy and the deepest sadness". India's uncomfortable truths on film 2012-06-08T21:55:04Z Abolition Row Park, built on an unoccupied corner lot, will include a statue of Frederick Douglass, a gazebo and community garden space. The Old Whaling Capital of New Bedford Looks Ahead 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z And while Lincoln visited and Douglass lived here for a time, they appear now for a particular purpose. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z Blight makes a similar case against Douglass, who shrouded his domestic life in secrecy even as he wrote and rewrote his personal story in three widely read autobiographies that totaled more than 1,200 pages. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z His memoir is strewn with words from others he read while in prison — Nelson Mandela, James Baldwin, Frantz Fanon, Frederick Douglass. ‘Solitary’ Is an Uncommonly Powerful Memoir About Four Decades in Confinement 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z As it has for the past few years, the Beinecke will mark the Fourth of July with a reading of both the Declaration of Independence and of Douglass’s famous Fourth of July oration of 1852. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The bridge replaces an old one, also named for Douglass, that was one of the ugliest in the city. Washington’s rising Frederick Douglass bridge lifts the human spirit 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Douglass contends that JFK was assassinated by operatives in the U.S. intelligence and military communities. Local books: histories of Seattle City Light and Seattle Children's hospital 2010-12-20T23:23:04Z Born into slavery in 1818 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Douglass escaped at the age of 21 and thereafter came to be regarded as one of the nation’s foremost intellectuals, writers and abolitionists. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Douglass, as part of a delegation of Black Americans that visited the White House to argue for Black suffrage, told Johnson, “You enfranchise your enemies and disfranchise your friends.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Talbot's historical research and analysis, along with that of other revisionist historians like James Douglass, indicates that JFK and RFK were both breaking from the national security state at the hour of their respective deaths. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Douglass frequented her rooms in Hoboken, N.J., where the participants of her salon lionized him, validating his rise from slavery into the thinking classes. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The centerpiece exhibition, “Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom,” on view through Jan. 5, is a Douglass-themed dialogue between the archive and visual art. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Douglass toured Ireland, then England, for about two years. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z More than a decade ago, the D.C. arts commission tapped Weitzman to produce a statue of Frederick Douglass, one of two pieces that District officials hoped to place in the U.S. What happened when D.C. chose a white artist to create the official Marion Barry statue 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The house on this lawn, now a historic site owned by the Department of the Interior, previously belonged to Frederick Douglass. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “They stopped him at the gates; Abraham Lincoln had to walk out himself and escort Frederick Douglass into the White House. And it didn’t happen again, as far as I know, until Roosevelt was president.” Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special: Three Key References to Know 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z In 1888, Douglass opposed Langston’s bid to become the first Black congressman from Virginia, on the grounds that he was insufficiently loyal to the Republican Party. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z More prominently, an effort to have the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass lie in state in the U.S. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Douglass, I know you have not travelled anywhere, so I have to explain things clearly for you to understand. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z She created a cascade of bronze children for a public school in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx and a bust of Frederick Douglass for Princeton University. A Sculptor of Black Heroes Leaves a Legacy 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Or Frederick Douglass: “I heard a rumor … that Black men will vote and that, before the year 1900, 1,500 Black Americans will hold office including seats in the House and Senate.” When Blackness Is a Superpower 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z A Georgetown Law graduate who became enamored with rare books while researching Frederick Douglass, he is working as an apprentice at DeWolfe & Wood Rare Books while he prepares to take the Massachusetts bar exam. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z People like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass were free; Douglass had even acquired enough wealth to do nothing. An open letter to NBA star Ja Morant about your latest gun controversy: Soar, Ja, soar 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z One year ago, a gunman entered Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people in a matter of minutes. Parkland survivors give us hope: Youth activism can save us 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “The Douglass Plan is a specific black agenda, named after Frederick Douglass, tackling systemic racism to boost the lives of black Americans,” Charlamagne says. How ‘The Breakfast Club,’ home to brash hosts and irate rappers, became a one-of-a-kind campaign stop 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Higher Ground is producing a feature film on Frederick Douglass, adapted from David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. Obamas unveil slate of series, documentaries for Netflix 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z At one point, Mr. Tines’s Ned mounts the stump to sing a stinging aria based on “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?” — a bitterly powerful 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “They will resonate differently,” says musician Legend, who not only served as music curator and executive producer on “Underground” but also plays Frederick Douglass this season. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The section of Frederick Douglass Boulevard that extends into Harlem from West 110th Street has undergone a radical transformation, with handsome new apartment buildings filling empty lots. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Aloft Harlem, in New York City 2011-02-25T21:55:00Z From a pier, Mr. Fields pointed toward the site of an old railroad where, one day in 1838, Douglass disguised himself as a sailor and jumped on a northbound train to freedom. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z I’m always fascinated by the accomplishments of research, and the Douglass book was profound. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Those two, he says, came easily, it was Douglass who gave him grief. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z Ms. Angelou said that Frederick Douglass used the first-person singular to talk about the story of a whole group of people. Schomburg Center Acquires Maya Angelou Archive 2010-10-26T20:15:00Z The figure of the abolitionist was dismantled and taken from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z I teach it a lot; the other day, we did a beautiful poem — “The Love Letters of Helen Pitts Douglass” by Michael Harper. Ishion Hutchinson on his poetry and the inspiration of Lee 'Scratch' Perry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Kennedy, a Harvard law professor, takes up everything from Frederick Douglass to George Floyd’s legacy in this collection of new and previously published essays. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, he supported Langston’s white opponent, a former Confederate, prompting one editorialist to charge Douglass with “a vain sacrifice of race to the fetish of party and personal pique.” Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Reportedly, Spielberg first conceived the film around Lincoln's friendship with black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who – very regrettably – isn't in the finished version at all. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z When Frederick Douglass arrived in Rome, the city, at first, was disappointing. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z To that end, the book opens with Douglass’s famously scathing description of Johnson at Lincoln’s second inauguration in March 1865. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Colman Domingo performs "The Proclamation And a Negro Army," Douglass' 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation calling for Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to join fight against the Confederacy. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z In Isaac Julien’s new installation, “Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass,” 10 screens hung at varying heights display scenes from the life of the former slave turned abolitionist. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But to observers like Frederick Douglass Opie, a professor who specializes in food history at Babson College in Massachusetts, the lack of mainstream media attention calls to mind Ralph Ellison’s novel “Invisible Man.” A Belle Époque for African-American Cooking 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z At a time when slavery was still legally sanctioned, Douglass couldn’t appeal to government authority, but he could appeal to its ostensible ideals. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Guests were ushered onto a boat, where an ECC volunteer gave them a closer look at osprey nests on a pylon of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. This ‘burger pervert’ turned a fetish into a following. Now, can he make it last? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “To my knowledge, the first black person that was officially invited to the White House was Frederick Douglass,” he said. Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special: Three Key References to Know 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Douglass also fought for civil reforms, including equal treatment for Black Americans and women, free public education, and the end of capital punishment. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z In another work commissioned for this show, Glyneisha Johnson, an artist in Kansas City, produced a photographic self-portrait that echoes elements from a Douglass portrait, in a tidy domestic interior of her design. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z In addition to the sacrifices made by African-American historical leaders, from Fredrick Douglass to Barack Obama, those accomplishments make me and many other Americans more than proud. “That white men might roll in ease”: I feel like the first real American in my family, which has been here for centuries 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The text of Douglass's lecture can be found in the useful anthology Haiti: A Slave Revolution, 200 Years After 1804. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z The trove sheds light on the later parts of Douglass’s life, and on his family, which he rarely mentioned in his speeches and writings. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z And, I’d be tempted to ask Frederick Douglass and Jesus Christ to tea to ask similar questions, and also about their respective resurrections. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “Life and Times” depicts the “triumphant election” of Lincoln in 1860 in the most glowing terms, glossing over Douglass’s swift disillusionment. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Black cemeteries across the country are facing the same fate Douglass Cemetery did, said Jacqueline Copeland, the executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Running concurrently is “The Golden March,” a series of screenprinted fabric installations on Douglass’s life, by the French artist Raphaël Barontini. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Juneteenth parade marchers chanted slogans and carried black, red and green American flags and pictures of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. These Radical Black Thrillers Fantasized About Dismantling the Police 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Trump’s ignorance of history was on full display with his misinformed comments about President Andrew Jackson and 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z In this richly detailed and impeccably designed biography, Bolden follows Douglass as he finds his way as a speaker, writer, newspaper publisher and American hero. Best children’s books of 2018 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Douglass, who still lives in Dagenham, said that whatever its eventual consequences, the strike was not initially a gender issue. Veterans of Dagenham dispute strike another blow for equality 42 years on 2010-09-22T20:50:00Z Douglass cultivated the fiction that he was “self-made” and had sprung fully formed from his own forehead. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In 2015, renowned slavery and Reconstruction historian Eric Foner wrote, "Slave is a familiar word and if it was good enough for Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists it is good enough for me." "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z As its president in the 1920s, she helped begin the effort to preserve the home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Who helped women get the vote? Meet three important suffragists. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The show pays tribute to almost 150 years of culture and politics — from the racist themes of 19th-century American vaudeville to the activism of leaders like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. At the Quai Branly, ‘Each Exhibition We Do Is a Book Telling a Story’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z "Huckleberry Finn" will stay in Friends' Central School's library, and will be replaced in the classroom by "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." Here we go again: 'Huckleberry Finn' pulled from Pennsylvania high school curriculum 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Wells and Douglass distributed the pamphlet at the fair’s popular Haitian Pavilion, and, eventually, the expo’s organizers held a “Negro Day.” What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z He is as bound to Frederick Douglass, as Tony Curtis is chained to Sidney Poitier in “The Defiant Ones.” Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z To establish more of a street presence, the society will position life-size bronze sculptures outside the building — Lincoln on Central Park West, Frederick Douglass on West 77th Street. A Bunker of History Begins to Open 2011-04-11T20:59:04Z In his final years, Douglass would come to be known as the Lion of Anacostia. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z How do you think Frederick Douglass would make sense of this moment with Donald Trump and his white supremacist movement and regime? "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z As the Civil War raged toward conclusion, Douglass attacked Lincoln for vacillating on black rights in the South. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z In the program’s most evocative scene, he meets Douglass at Chambersburg, Pa., where Douglass tries to talk him out of the raid that would help push the nation to civil war. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z A chain dangling lengthwise from top to bottom of the picture separates the two Douglasses. Collecting to Explore ‘Origin, Culture, Form, Function and Race’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The digging started in 1909 by a team of paleontologists led by the Carnegie Museum’s Earl Douglass, on a mission to bring truckloads of ancient bones back to Pittsburgh. On a dino crusade in Utah, tracks don’t always follow the map 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Lily Duggan, a maid at the house of Douglass's host and publisher, is inspired by his example to board a coffin ship for a new life in America. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z With “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” the historian David W. Blight wants to enrich our understanding of an American in full who, for more than half his life, wasn’t even legally recognized as such. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Wells secured contributions for the pamphlet from Frederick Douglass, the educator and journalist Irvine Garland Penn, and the lawyer and activist Ferdinand Lee Barnett. What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Today, however, Savannah is a pilgrimage site for Douglass researchers. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Just to have a chance to sit with David and talk about Frederick Douglass’ life and the 1850s with that kind of clarity. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The books brought to life the stories of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in graphic form and made black history exciting. Poet Elizabeth Alexander celebrates the power of a people’s voice 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Images of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Geronimo, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela and others stare defiantly from the wall alongside quotes on freedom and liberty. The murals on Belfast’s ‘peace walls’ offer an illustrated history of the Troubles 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The first major biography of Douglass in nearly three decades makes ample use of previously unavailable materials to illuminate Douglass’s later years, after the Civil War. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Presented as a slave narrative in the tradition of Frederick Douglass, “The Water Dancer” is rooted in details of pre-Civil War Virginia. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “If people know anything about Douglass, they know the young Douglass, the heroic former slave who escapes and makes himself into a spectacular orator,” Dr. Blight said. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass became obsessed with photography when it was a new technology. Keris Salmon’s haunting canvases pair plantation photos and slave diaries 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Then he paraphrased Douglass: “A man who can read is unfit to be a slave,” he said. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds,” our critic Jennifer Szalai says. 6 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Dr. Evans, also a leading collector of African-American art, acquired the bulk of the Douglass collection in the 1980s from a dealer. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Morton believes the seller got word that he wanted to preserve the home by paying homage to Douglass. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Through each of the chose speeches the audience is invited to consider a period in Douglass' extraordinary life. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington had paid visits, but a house that was once the pride of the city was reduced to charred ruins. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z All figure in Brown's story, as do such notables from the other side of the divide as Frederick Douglass. 'Midnight Rising' illuminates John Brown 2011-11-03T22:11:08Z Even before impeachment, Douglass was explaining to audiences how Johnson exploited the “defects” in the Constitution that allowed a “bad and wicked president” to assume “kingly powers.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The new Change.org appeal argues that the New York air hub should be rechristened as Frederick Douglass International Airport to honor the author, orator and civil rights leader. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z It is scheduled to begin serving customers later this year or early next, by which point Aloft Harlem, a fashion-conscious hotel on the corner of Frederick Douglass and 124th Street, should also be open. The Tipsy Diaries: Going Upscale Uptown 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z SAVANNAH, Ga. — Frederick Douglass passed through this elegant Southern city only once, for the briefest of visits — a half-hour whistle-stop on his rail journey to a speaking engagement in Jacksonville, Fla. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Through them, Douglass' grandeur and passion echoes across the ages to resonate in our era. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass asked in his famous 1852 address “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z A recent ongoing project is equally methodical but more accessible: It involves transposing texts — for instance by Martin Luther King Jr., or Frederick Douglass — into musical scores through a system matching letters to notes. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The nearly 66-year-old Douglass held the plan secret even from his children, with whom he also worked daily, and who seem to have learned of the marriage from press inquiries. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Ben Douglass, 30, who lives on Hilton Head Island and attended the fundraiser at Ravenel's plantation, said he appreciated the candidate's honesty about his past and planned to vote for him. As cameras roll, South Carolina reality show cast member makes bid for U.S. Senate 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” he tells me, quoting Frederick Douglass. ”Where are the people taking to the streets? America’s abortion deserts: How the right turns back the clock on Roe 2014-01-16T12:44:00Z I feel like Douglass and his other compatriots who fought for black people's equal human rights would recognize the interminability of the struggle. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z On a Facebook post, Buhl's father, Frederick Douglass Buhl, said the death of his 22-year-old son left his family "saddened beyond words." Seattle hip-hop artist Freddy E dies of apparently self-inflicted shot 2013-01-07T14:27:32Z And yet writers such as Douglass had to call on white men to authenticate their texts, the better to disprove the antebellum Jack Cashills and Rush Limbaughs ready to declare fraud. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Or the fact that two sons of Frederick Douglass were in the 54th Regiment? We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Burchard said Douglass cemetery fell into disrepair over the years because no Alexandria church or other nonprofit cares for it; often cemeteries are maintained by congregations. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In 2006, the historian David Blight had just given a talk about Frederick Douglass in Savannah, Ga., when he was introduced to Walter Evans, a retired surgeon and collector. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Majors sets that tone at the top of the hour with the following quote from Douglass' designated 1847 address, "Country, Conscience, And The Anti-Slavery Cause." HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z There are only thumbnail images of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and a lot of policemen and men in drab brown suits dragging women away. How Do You Talk to Children About Politics These Days? Try These Books. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The spirit of the piece, Mr. Biggers said, was similar to what Douglass expressed in his speech in 1876: how Lincoln’s role was important, but only part of the story. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Douglass, Blight says, was a “man of words,” making this book “the biography of a voice.” A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Any worthwhile documentary doesn't shy away from its subjects' warts; this one brings only enough attention to Douglass' to acknowledge his mortal imperfections. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The president will be draped in a quilt; above him stands Frederick Douglass, his hand over Lincoln’s head as if to raise the fabric. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It included manuscripts in Douglass’s hand of some of his later essays and speeches, but also correspondence with his children. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z And both of Lewis’s children, Lori Anne Douglass and David Douglass, would become partners at law firms. For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The alchemy that transformed an unknown fugitive slave named Frederick Douglass into one of the most celebrated orators and political theorists in the world finished its work with astonishing speed. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass is one of America's greatest founding fathers, I would say. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Based on Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, it had the advantage of not just the songs, but also a charismatic star, Gwen Verdon, playing the devil's assistant, Lola. Richard Adler obituary 2012-06-22T18:10:50Z The opera now opens with Frederick Douglass visiting the White House in 1865 and telling Abraham Lincoln he would like to see “voting rights for all free men of color.” Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Was he in history class with us thinking Frederick Douglass was some made-up folk hero played by Morgan Freeman, or that Harriet Jacobs was just a novel character dreamed up for our delight? The lost art of not having an opinion on everything 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Blight isn’t looking to overturn our understanding of Douglass, whose courage and achievements were unequivocal, but to complicate it — a measure by which this ambitious and empathetic biography resoundingly succeeds. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z “This basic conflict between American ideals and American reality is something that Frederick Douglass recognized,” the Harvard scholar Vincent Brown says in the film. ‘American Denial’ and ‘Hate in America’ Look at Unflattering Truths 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The setting couldn’t be more picturesque: the show unfolds under a narrow tent on a pier at the Capitol Riverfront’s Yards Park, with the river lapping only feet away and Douglass landmarks in sight. Review | Solas Nua stages ‘The Frederick Douglass Project’ on an Anacostia River pier 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to say he doesn’t know who Douglass is, but he certainly gives no information about black history beyond a few names,” Domby said. Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Season 4 began in an alternative reality, in which Clinton did win the election; Season 5 summarized the pandemic-and-protest months of 2020 with a Covid fever dream that involved Frederick Douglass and Jesus. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Some — the poems of Phillis Wheatley, the memoir of Frederick Douglass — stand literature’s test of time. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Whitten kept this sculpture in his studio in Queens, on a wall covered in photos of himself, his friends, Crete, and such figures as Frederick Douglass, Gandhi, James Brown, Josephine Baker and Ray Charles. Review | After death, major works by artist Jack Whitten discovered 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Nam’s Market, a small blue-fronted store near the Frederick Douglass house, keeps most of its wares—including cup noodles, tinned stew, Frooties—securely behind a glass partition and a bolted door. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Douglass, who died in 1895, was the most photographed American of the 19th century, but his voice was never recorded. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z With a penetrating bite, he delivers the setting of text from Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Similar series on abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman followed within two years. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Despite her “grandiosity,” Blight thinks it probable that Assing and Douglass were lovers, even if her devotion wasn’t fully reciprocated. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Also in the mix is the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his Irish ties. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The Beinecke, citing library policy, would not disclose any financial terms of the Douglass acquisition. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Yes, Lepore pays heed to Frederick Douglass and Cesar Chavez and the African-American lawyer and civil rights activist Pauli Murray, among others. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He was a big advocate of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, and he fought alongside people who are maybe a little bit better-known, like Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian had two identities. It took two authors to tell her story. 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z “The Agitators” consists of scenes from a marriage of minds: those of the pivotal 19th-century American social and political writers and activists, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. Two heroes of 19th-century America seek justice. They get none in ‘The Agitators.’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The old Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge wasn’t that kind of bridge. Washington’s rising Frederick Douglass bridge lifts the human spirit 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty is what Frederick Douglass says. Billy Porter helps examine origins of gay rights movement 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z And now they were face to face, Auld in his 80s and near death, Douglass not only a free man but a legendary figure in the resistance to and destruction of slavery. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Douglass, who disapproved of the use of violence, wrote that he had warned Brown that “he was going into a perfect steel trap, and that once in he would never get out alive.” How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z When he was given some details about Lucy Shirley’s life, David Douglass said it reminded him of his grandmother Cornelia, “who was this extraordinary, strong woman who did these amazing things.” For a while she was a name and a status — enslaved. Now we know more 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” offers a perspective in U.S. history that is rarely discussed. Chris Bosh’s Favorite Basketball Writers? Kobe Bryant Makes the List. 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z He was born in the 1830s or early 1840s in Maryland or Virginia and in older age looked like the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to one of his granddaughters. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “I kind of passed on it ... but then I couldn’t sleep at night. I was like, ‘Man, it’s Frederick Douglass’s house. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, during his sojourn — described in the 1892 edition of “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” — Rome managed, as it always does, to win his heart. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" premieres Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made it a point to become the era’s most-photographed man, in direct opposition to a culture drenched in racist images of minstrels and contented slaves. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But she also wrote about African-American food in Florida, where she lived, and that is what Frederick Douglass Opie will discuss at a lecture hosted by Culinary Historians of New York. John Besh’s Apron Supports a Cause 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Out of modesty, he has not revealed that Frederick Douglass once told him, “You’re doing an amazing job.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Trump’s secret acts of kindness? Just imagine. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Douglass’s associate, Shields “Emperor” Green, parts ways with Douglass to fight with Brown. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z What had to be done, Douglass said, was to “render the rights of the states compatible with the sacred rights of human nature.” The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Douglass went on to become a leader in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, a best-selling author, and a US diplomat. How schools are using restorative justice to remedy racial disparities in discipline 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z When I first got to town, I went to a concert at the historic Douglass Theatre, where festivalgoers had gathered to hear Jaimoe playing with his jazz group. The town that produced musical legends keeps staying in the groove 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z In Savannah, Douglass greeted the cheering crowd and reviewed a company of black troops at the railway depot, and then he was gone. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Burchard said he hopes the restoration commemorates those buried in Douglass cemetery — and the plot’s namesake. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z People retreated to find cover in Douglass Hall and other buildings. Welcome to Homecoming! 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, and Douglass, a former slave who did not know his precise birthday, celebrated his date of birth on Feb. 14, Fox 10 also noted. Black History Month facts: 10 things you should know 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “But this is a window onto the older Douglass — the patriarch, the former radical outsider who is now a kind of political insider. We’ve never known much about that Douglass.” Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Then again, both Douglass and Thomas Jefferson, whom Diggs played in "Hamilton," sided with the eventual victors in their wars. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Highland Beach, which is where the next book is, is in Maryland, and Frederick Douglass had his summer home there. "The View" host Sunny Hostin elevates the beach read with Black stories at the forefront 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z I mean the most famous one is Frederick Douglass's The North Star. "Dickinson" creator on Emily and fame: "The spotlight was a dangerous place for her to be" 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Two other timely books were written with young readers in mind — a new biography of Frederick Douglass and another of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z A newly built school, Frederick Douglass Elementary, admits to being a little nervous about the arrival of children and all the new experiences that come with first days. Best children’s and young adult books of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The following year, Douglass Fairbanks and Mary Pickford—the Brad and Angelina of their day—turned the adventure tale into the first movie from their brand-new studio, United Artists. Top 10 Movie Swordsmen 2011-10-20T09:00:13Z Nearly all of its 21 rooms retain their original décor, including Douglass’s books and musical instruments. At Home in Washington 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass is Even greater now than when he was dead. Style Invitational: Mergers you wrote — combine two businesses 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z She enabled Douglass to survive personally and professionally, managing and raising money for the newspaper and for the food that came across the Douglass family table. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z African American residents — including a son of Frederick Douglass, Charles R. Douglass — bought land and built their homes at the site after the Civil War. Why do so few public housing projects receive historic landmark status? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “We don’t want to flood the system, especially the emergency rooms right now,” said Elizabeth Douglass, an infectious diseases specialist at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. How to differentiate between allergies and coronavirus 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z In presenting Douglass from many angles, Bolden provides plenty of close-up views of Douglass’s family life, travels in Europe, advocacy of women’s rights, and lifelong intellectual rigor. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The cover features an image of Lincoln in the top left corner and Douglass in the bottom right. Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that’s no joke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z In turn they become President Andrew Johnson, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and so many others, bringing alive their intolerance, their hope, their frustrations and yearning that colored their experience of America. In Netflix's stirring "Amend," stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Let me make one fact clear to you, Douglass: it is always a disaster whenever a palm-wine tapper confronts a cobra on top of his palm tree. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z Slavery, Frederick Douglass said, “never was lawful, and never can be made so.” Remembering the Enslaved Who Sued for Freedom Before the Civil War 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z In the Rodney King essay, I looked all the way back to slave narratives of Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs, and their accounts of witnessing violence. Endless Grief: The Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z I did think," he adds, "about just doing Douglass but then it would have been a historical novel and" – he pulls a face – "I hate the term … It just seems steeped in aspic. Colum McCann: a life in writing 2013-05-25T07:30:01Z So to have a person like Douglass gave the antislavery cause teeth. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z That, and a willingness to listen to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, whose devotion to emancipation and equality for Black Americans, free or formerly enslaved, helped shift Lincoln's political fortunes and his views. "Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Dilemma" clarify a few things about uncomfortable history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Next, a historical interpreter from the society will read excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s seminal speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 8 Things to Do This Fourth of July Weekend 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A hired slave named Frederick Douglass caulked vessels in Fells Point shipyards and later escaped on a train. A new Inner Harbor luxury hotel, the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore, shines with history’s luster 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Correction: December 9, 2011 A previous version of this article misspelled Bill Douglass’ surname. When Couples Find Gadgets Interfere With Harmony 2011-12-09T17:52:02Z On July 5, a statue of Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Douglass was now a major political figure, with an elegant hilltop home in Washington, D.C. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z I discovered “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the astonishing document of a slave who taught himself to read at great peril to himself. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z While reading scholarly books and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, he stumbled upon a casual reference to the fact that in 1865 the Passover observance began the day after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Writing the Play His Curiosity Led Him To 2011-01-27T23:00:09Z An award-winning illustrator and author of children’s books whose mission to offer candid and positive images of Black history included subjects ranging from Frederick Douglass to Venus and Serena Williams. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Soloman Howard, a rising young bass who is singing the parts of Douglass and King, said that it was difficult not to hear contemporary echoes in the voting rights scenes. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Born into slavery, Douglass lived in Baltimore as a child. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Douglass begins with a searing critique of American hypocrisy before offering his white audience a vision of an America that might yet live up to its ideals. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass said: Power concedes nothing without demand. Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The teacher, Bomani Armah, engaged the class in a discussion about why Douglass did not know his age — because slaves, considered property, were not told their birthdays. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Featuring narrated excerpts from Mr. Douglass’s speeches, the film eschews action for quiet images that conjure a meditative state, interrupted by flashes of violence. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It could not have been lost on the dapper, self-regarding Douglass that men and women swooned over him, describing him in terms that bordered on erotic. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Cleverly, De Valle appropriated a historic-Anacostia marker for a rendering of one of the neighborhood’s most eminent former residents, Frederick Douglass. Review | In the galleries: ‘Finding a Path’ is framed as a dialogue between two nature artists 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Douglass, the most photographed American of the 19th century, is a recurrent character in this book. The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z To which Brown replies, “Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin, Douglass.” Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z Next, say hello to a giant bronze likeness of Frederick Douglass, who as an enslaved young man worked in the shipyard at Fells Point docks. For a better sense of Baltimore, get out of the Inner Harbor and head to Fells Point 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Unlike other volumes on Johnson’s impeachment, which focus mainly on the Radical Republicans who wanted him removed from office, “The Failed Promise” looks closely at the perspective of Frederick Douglass and other Black leaders. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Paperback version of the book by Douglass, a former Seattle-area peace activist who now lives in Alabama. Local books: histories of Seattle City Light and Seattle Children's hospital 2010-12-20T23:23:04Z During his trip, Douglass witnessed the fallout of a terrible potato blight that was bringing famine to the land. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z Mr. Evans, then a surgeon in Detroit, purchased from a dealer in the mid-1980s two large lots of Douglass materials. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Blight describes how Douglass moved away from the moral suasion he promoted in his early years on the abolitionist lecture circuit toward his full-throated calls for war. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass wrote that “more slaves are whipped for oversleeping than any other fault.” ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z And around the corner, on 77th Street, Frederick Douglass poses in bronze near the society’s other major entrance. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z There was also that message on the answering machine that we heard before the play began, an apology from a home service company for “the situation with Helene Douglass.” Debate Society's ‘Jacuzzi,' With Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s an appealing idea, and one might replace Jeff Davis with Frederick Douglass and leave the allegorical figure of vindication right where she is, surveying the state’s capital from high atop her commanding pillar. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Douglass’s words reminded me that the state forbids reading and writing when it wants to make freedom virtually impossible. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The new bridge is named for Frederick Douglass, a civil rights leader who was born into slavery, escaped and became one of this country’s greatest and most influential writers. Washington’s rising Frederick Douglass bridge lifts the human spirit 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Scholars David Blight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a Douglass descendent are among those offering context. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z So were any documentaries about the Underground Railroad, or Frederick Douglass, the Amistad, or any other prominent figures or historical chapters about the pre-Civil War South that one can think of. The genius of “Underground”: A gripping slavery drama that dares to be entertaining 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “This idea of archiving oneself, one’s friends and network was important to the show, in thinking about Douglass’s family and supporters who allowed him to emerge as the leader that he was,” Mr. Moro said. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z It is a pointed reference, as Douglass gave the speech to inaugurate Ball’s statue in Washington in 1876. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Levine, a professor of English who has written extensively about Douglass, advises that Douglass’s account, which dramatizes his prescience, ought to be read with a measure of skepticism. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The Frederick Douglass Homes was not always one of the blots on the landscape. Housing project where Supremes lived coming down 2012-11-15T22:31:36Z “It was a way to connect Douglass’s abolitionist work with our time.” Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Douglass became a marathon traveler for the abolitionist cause at a time when moving about the country by train was punishing in itself. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Despairing that slavery would ever be abolished in the US, Douglass and his family were preparing to relocate to Haiti when word came of Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z “There were fallen leaves, signs of flooding, and trees with limbs hanging so far over you couldn’t even read the sign that says, ‘Douglass.’ A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But Douglass was quick to see what Johnson was up to. When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Douglass decided to remain in the US, and later served as the country's ambassador to Haiti. Ben Fountain's top 10 books about Haiti 2013-05-15T14:34:17Z Cemeteries in America were almost always segregated then, and Douglass’s death in February 1895 inspired people across the country to name places in his honor, she said. A Virginia teen saw a historic black cemetery in disrepair. He recruited his fellow Boy Scouts to restore it. 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In the case of many authors, including Douglass, Hughes and Malcolm X, part of that struggle for identity includes wrestling with the fact of a white parent or grandparent. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z He commends Morton for keeping Douglass’s legacy alive. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass wrote that the novel’s “effect was amazing, instantaneous, and universal.” Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A letter from Frederick Douglass’s son Lewis, who was a member of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was written after fighting a “terrible” and “desperate” battle over Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z A trending online petition is calling for Greater Rochester International Airport to be renamed after African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z A great way to honor the famed abolitionist is the “Path to Freedom” walking tour, led by the guide Lou Fields through Douglass’s home in historic Fells Point, Baltimore’s original waterfront community. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It is possible to fill a show with photographs of Douglass, who cannily managed his image and is considered the most-photographed person in 19th-century America. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z As Frederick Douglass observed long ago, “Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will.” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The new research on Douglass stems from something close to accident. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z In between, he will deliver his one-man play “Frederick Douglass Now,” a multidisciplinary show presenting the abolitionist’s work and philosophy with a contemporary flair. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The company also is adapting Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight about the celebrated abolitionist. Obamas' Netflix slate features period drama, family show about... 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Lily Duggan is a penniless maid in Ireland, who is inspired by Douglass to undertake the perilous passage to America. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z As Douglass would write 16 years later in “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” he noticed Johnson glancing at him with a look of “bitter contempt and aversion.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “Douglass’s message might be more relevant today than ever since the struggles he fought for remain ongoing,” the petition proposes. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass’s inclusion on the list, Mr. Goodyear writes, was because of his successful exploitation of the new medium in order to create a dignified, strong and refined image to counter racist stereotypes. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z Another work that sings a poignant song, aside from the sweet “Family,” is an image of Douglass sitting at a table, writing on a yellow, newspaper-sized slab of paper. 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z You have to remember that I was growing up in the household of a historian, so I was learning about all of our history at the same time: the Malian Empire, Ghana, Frederick Douglass. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z We are chatting about your new book "Riot Baby" on Feb. 14, Frederick Douglass' birthday. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z As Blight writes, “Although Assing sipped tea occasionally with Mrs. Douglass, she held Anna in utter contempt, disrespecting her lack of education and even at times privately denigrating her role as homemaker.” Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Historical diner experts claimed the building was most likely either the former Little Palace Lunch No. 1 or the Continental Grill No. 2 — two of many small box diners based in East Douglass. This classic 1930s diner is free to a good owner — if you can move it 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass’s cane and Abraham Lincoln’s inkwell Lincoln may have used this inkwell to write parts of the Emancipation Proclamation. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z They were the Douglass family scrapbooks, carefully assembled and annotated by Douglass’s sons — and all but unknown to scholars. Frederick Douglass, Seen Up Close 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Much of New York City was in a state of mourning, and visitors to the center, on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, gazed at the Harris’s family photos as if seeking instruction from the past. A Young Black Girl’s View of Harlem at the Height of the Great Migration 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, who was the most interesting to me. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The other current show, “Faces of the Underground Railroad,” displays contemporary quilt squares portraying figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z There’s a wealth of provocative and creative Black-focused programs in February, looking deep into the past to examine topics such as the roots of slavery and the achievements of towering figures including Frederick Douglass. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He also produced series on the lives of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. Jacob Lawrence, Peering Through History’s Cracks 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z The gripping best seller earned Douglass international prestige and forced readers around the world to come to terms with slavery’s brutality and blacks’ freedom dreams. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z His store ran out of the Frederick Douglass biography before Thanksgiving. Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The amorous German lingered in Douglass’s circle year after year, waiting in vain for the divorce that would allow her to “walk tall as the rightful ‘Mrs. Douglass.’” Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The book also includes a famous quotation from the abolitionist writer Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” he said. Symone Sanders Bet on Biden, and Herself 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The five homes of Douglass Row were listed on the National Register of Historic Places nearly a century later, in 1983. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The images here are not exclusively contemporary — note a man resembling the abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the lower left corner — but they implicate current events. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z I don’t believe Anderson’s recital, or Douglass’s encounter with Auld, were kumbaya moments. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Douglass turned to his companion and said, “Whatever Andrew Johnson may be, he certainly is no friend of our race.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z The next morning, he aired his first TV ad touting his Douglass Plan for Black America, which aims to invest in black businesses and create 3 million jobs. Pete Buttigieg is not popular with black voters in South Carolina. Miss Black America is trying to change that. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Philip Gould, English professor at Brown University, discusses the oratory and writing of Frederick Douglass. What to watch this weekend: ‘Homeland’ returns on Showtime 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z At Frederick Douglass, there was no doubt that Baldwin would be in the canon and the classroom. James Baldwin, Born 90 Years Ago, Is Fading in Classrooms 2014-04-24T11:30:01Z We would learn about Frederick Douglass but not Nat Turner. Is This the Most Radical Film Ever Produced by Hollywood? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Or that Frederick Douglass is alive and active today? In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z She wandered into the Douglasses’ lives in 1856, seeking permission to translate his second autobiography, “My Bondage and My Freedom,” into German. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “What if we made it Frederick Douglass lifting the veil of ignorance off Lincoln?” An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z But I cite them here not for those reasons but due to the way this hour channels Douglass' prose through their personal identities as keepers of his legacy. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It also allowed him to take up history in a direct way, making images of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Tubman. Review | Charles White, who made some of this country’s greatest art, transcends labels 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z He and his wife — a free black Marylander who had aided the escape — fled to New Bedford, Mass., where Douglass was recruited to the abolitionist movement while honing his oratory at a local church. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z It was as though Douglass was vivid, tangible and just around the corner. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Illustration: Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, born a slave and then still technically the chattel of a Maryland landowner, arrived in . TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z Heartening but tragic … Douglass visited Ireland as the Great Famine began. TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z Brown has always commanded tremendous respect among African Americans, from Frederick Douglass to W.E.B. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z During that talk she speculated that Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t been a major focus of the project “apparently because they worked too closely with whites.” Perspective | Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The 1862 “Cotopaxi,” which depicts a South American volcano in blood-red eruption, was painted the year after Frederick Douglass, in a powerful speech, called American slavery “a moral volcano.” American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z We walked along the cobblestone streets where Douglass, born into slavery, spent his teenage years, teaching himself to read and write from discarded newspapers. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z People who may recall at the very least the edges and outline of his story likely read at least segments of his bestselling "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave." HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Hops can be a finicky crop when it comes to their climate, and without water, you simply can’t make beer, said Douglass Miller, senior lecturer at Cornell who teaches a class on beer. How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Eunice’s name appears in the ladies section, right under Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s, and Elisha’s in the gentlemen’s, right above Frederick Douglass. The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The beverage — which, as reported by Ian Douglass at Mel Magazine, borrows its name from a common term for Appalachian moonshine — tends to be culturally derided as lowbrow or gamer fuel. How a new FDA warning revealed my beloved Mountain Dew is actually "healthier" than we all thought 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Shawn Quigley: Frederick Douglass spoke in this space on multiple occasions. The U.S.’s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patients from Cradle to Grave 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z A jury found Cherok Ameer Douglass, of New Albany, guilty in August of two counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury. Southern Indiana man gets 240 years for 2 murders, attempted murder and robbery 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z They not only took his white Toyota crossover but also his phone, tablet and luggage, though all were quickly retrieved on the 2600 block of Douglass Road Southeast. Rep. Cuellar carjacking reveals the depth of D.C.’s crime crisis 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass now lived nearby, and he took on the role of surrogate parent to Sarah. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass escaped slavery from Maryland in 1838 and became a well-known abolitionist, writer, speaker, and supporter of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z They even show Frederick Douglass, a famous abolitionist, making excuses for slavery by claiming it was "a compromise to achieve something great." PragerU's Confederate propaganda isn't just misleading — it props up modern insurrectionists 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Douglass apologized to family members of his victims but said he planned to appeal the jury’s verdict. Southern Indiana man gets 240 years for 2 murders, attempted murder and robbery 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z One video depicts slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass saying that while slavery was wrong and evil, it was a compromise the Founding Fathers had to make to “achieve something great.” How Ron DeSantis used Florida schools to become a culture warrior 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z When Sarah set up her new office, it was Douglass himself who nailed up the shingle. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z This depiction of Douglass leaves experts in his life and times aghast. Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Gayle was part of that defence and says the Bears haven't had a quarterback like Fields since Bobby Douglass in the 1970s. Meet Bears 'superstar' Fields - NFL's next MVP? 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z “I still don’t remember what happened that night,” Douglass said during the sentencing hearing. Southern Indiana man gets 240 years for 2 murders, attempted murder and robbery 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The top-two finish by Douglass and Walsh marked the first time the American women had achieved the feat at the worlds. China wins two gold medals at the swimming worlds. Americans finish 1-2 in women’s 200-meter medley 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z And Douglass was no longer just a friend of the family. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The video depicts Douglass quoting from an 1852 speech to a Rochester anti-slavery society in which he said “great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages.” Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Ironically, it was two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who provided Bennett with his signature song when his career was in a lull. Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Ironically, his most famous contribution came through two unknowns, George Cory and Douglass Cross, who in the early ’60s provided Bennett with his signature song at a time his career was in a lull. Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z His successor, The Reverend Dr. Frederick Douglass Haynes III, was announced at a weekend convention that included a celebration of the 35th anniversary of Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign. Jesse Jackson kept Martin Luther King’s dream — and hope — alive | Leonard Greene 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Nora Mathison: Those really good friends were, of course, the family of Frederick Douglass, particularly his youngest son, Charles, who had been serving as Vice Consul of the U.S., living in the Dominican Republic. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z One encounter is with Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist. Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z Among the biggest visual changes are the addition of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and D.C.’s official bird, the wood thrush. D.C. unveils new driver’s license design 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z For Frederick Douglass, the arc of his own life exemplified the link between learning and freedom. SCOTUS will not have the last laugh 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z On a homebound basis, I hope to help Frederick Douglass High School, my alma mater, to continue to be a school that produces great leaders. Q&A: Killer Mike talks grandmother’s influence, comparing himself to Wolverine, new album ‘Michael’ 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass believed Sarah's prospects were better in the Dominican Republic. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The animated Douglass speaks up for change achieved through “patience and compromise.” Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The situation came to a head in summer 2019, as Douglass tried to finalize a property trust created after the death of his wife, Maxine, worth an estimated hundreds of millions of dollars. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z As a young slave, Douglass had experienced the epiphany of education: by learning to learn he was already acquiring freedom. SCOTUS will not have the last laugh 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “The Board of Directors was recently made aware of the company’s cash deficit by management and took immediate action as a result,” Douglass said in the release. Bounced paychecks, frozen 401(k)s — How Fresno's ‘shining star’ let down the people it aimed to serve 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z At around the time the newlyweds were setting sail for a new life together in the Dominican Republic, Frederick Douglass wrote again to Sarah. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I reread Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" each year on that day. Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z A specific value of the Douglass estate is not listed in court documents, as some of the properties had yet to be appraised by the time the court case commenced. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z In 1871, abolitionist Frederick Douglass feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus - slavery - when he gave a Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery. From the Civil War to today’s mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Douglass and the board did not respond to requests for comment. Bounced paychecks, frozen 401(k)s — How Fresno's ‘shining star’ let down the people it aimed to serve 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z At the urging of family friend Frederick Douglass, she married and, with her new husband Charles Fraser, set sail for the Dominican Republic, where more was possible for a person of color. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Scott and other abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Douglass, he argued, knew that free speech “was a right that we were not given by a government.” Killer Mike goes off: 'Right now, in this country, your freedom of speech is at risk' 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z She and Harlan Douglass each owned half of their estate, and on her death, the will states that her property should be placed in a trust. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z A decade before the Civil War, the prophetic abolitionist Frederick Douglass rose to the dais at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall in celebration of the 76th Independence Day of the nation. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Three people were found dead after a vehicle plunged into the Anacostia River on Thursday night near the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, according to the D.C. police and fire departments. Three found dead after vehicle plunges into Anacostia River 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Among those strong and brave friends in and around Syracuse were Harriet Tubman and famed orator Frederick Douglass, who was a close family friend. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z There’s a lot more about Frederick Douglass here than there is about the bad guys of slavery. Harlan Crow: There’s nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Harlan Douglass has his own will, which has been sealed until his death. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Douglass acknowledged the vision and courage of the Founders, and then offered a tragic testimony. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Douglass also had connections to the area where Vishal's remains were found as his mother lived nearby. Vishal Mehrotra: Family of killed boy can't forgive police inaction 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z April Mayes: Frederick Douglass tells her, “The Dominican Republic is where you can do your best work.” Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Crow and his wife gave Thomas a $19,000 Bible once owned by Frederick Douglass and a $15,000 bust of President Lincoln. Column: What Clarence Thomas calls hospitality looks a lot more like corruption 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z She described an incident that summer when she’d told Harlan Douglass to go to an office about 15 to 20 feet away, and that Harlan Douglass became lost on the way. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z And yet, like Douglass at the celebration of a near identical milestone, our hearts are heavy with the starkness of unfulfilled dreams, and the distance between founding ideals and faltering reality. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Harriet Tubman looked to the North Star to point the way for the Africans she helped escape from slavery, and Frederick Douglass named one of his abolitionist newspapers after it. With a Black Californian headed to the moon, many see cosmic justice for a whole race 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Certainly connections like the Douglass family didn't hurt. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z According to The Washington Post, Thomas "has reported receiving only two gifts since 2004"—a bronze bust of Frederick Douglass, which came from Crow, and an award from Yale Law School. "Oh, please": Critics scoff at Clarence Thomas' defense of secret billionaire-funded luxury trips 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Lancze Douglass, in court testimony last fall, said that after his brother filed the lawsuit, his father “became isolated from everybody.” Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Douglass addressed just such a critique in his 1852 message, responding to those who implored him “to argue more, and denounce less … persuade more, and rebuke less.” Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z One of the two gifts that Thomas reported receiving since 2004 came from Crow: a bronze bust of Frederick Douglass, valued at $6,484.12, according to Thomas’s 2015 financial disclosure. Clarence Thomas has reported receiving only two gifts since 2004 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Sarah's sister, living in D. C., had married his son, Lewis Douglass. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z He kept those gallery gloves on to handle their “scary rare” 1882 edition of “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” but he still wasn’t being delicate enough for Shirley’s liking. With their newly extended SoFi Stadium exhibition, the Kinseys aim to change the narrative about Black history 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “We weren’t able to talk to him to have him drive the ship, as it may, to keep it going forward,” Lancze Douglass said under questioning. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Even amid the degradation of his people and the rank hypocrisy of such a seemingly shallow celebration, Douglass defended the idealism of the Framers. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Since 2004, Thomas has reported only two gifts: one an award from his alma mater Yale Law School and the other a bust of Frederick Douglass given to him by Crow. Justice Thomas accepted luxury travel for years from GOP donor, report says 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z April Mayes: And Charles Douglass basically is like the best wingman ever. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The gifts included a Bible that once belonged to abolitionist Frederick Douglass — a gift Thomas valued at $19,000 — and a bust of Abraham Lincoln valued at $15,000. The Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Clary found that Harlan Douglass was “senior and frail of mind” when he signed the deed that transferred 224 Spokane County properties from the trust. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Soon after Crow met Thomas three decades ago, he began lavishing the justice with gifts, including a $19,000 bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass, which Thomas disclosed. Legal experts: Clarence Thomas appears to have violated law with secret luxury trips from GOP donor 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Crow helped finance a Savannah, Ga., library project dedicated to Thomas, presented him with a Bible that belonged to Douglass and reportedly provided $500,000 for Ginni Thomas to start a tea-party-related group. Justice Thomas accepted luxury travel for years from GOP donor, report says 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z But lucky for him, back in the U.S., the Douglasses kept telling Sarah what a great guy this Charles Fraser is. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z “I just knew he was a fan of Frederick Douglass, and I saw that item come available at an auction and I bought it for him,” Crow explained at the time. The Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Clary also found that Harlan Douglass took no actual steps to treat the properties as his own, rather than in the trust, indicating he did not want the transfer. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass memorized the speeches of Cicero, in the hope that powerful oratory of the sort that once swayed the Roman Senate and courts would move America’s own leadership toward needed change. Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse classical studies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “Douglass was built with private funds. Then later years it got taxpayer money. But Fairmont was the first.” Preserving a powerful legacy in a county transformed by Black people 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled that the witness, who prosecutors say “occupied a prominent position within the online, alt-right community,” will be identified by just a screen name at Douglass Mackey’s trial this month. Anonymous witness may take center stage at trial of troll who urged vote ‘by text’ 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The name of the lone Black American who is included — abolitionist Frederick Douglass — was misspelled for more than a century before being corrected in 2019. ‘Million-Dollar Staircase’ Adds a New Face: Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The fate of what could amount to $1 billion of property has been settled by a Spokane court as the children of real estate giant Harlan Douglass fight over their potential inheritance. Judge weighs in on Spokane inheritance fight over real estate fortune 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z |
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