| 单词 | Frederick Douglass |
| 例句 | In nonfiction, I spot a single copy of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He was an avid abolitionist, who helped Frederick Douglass escape from federal marshals in 1859. 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 First off ’cause they’re always telling us how smart Mr. Frederick Douglass is. 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 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 Wary of more bad press, Stanton wanted James Mott or Frederick Douglass to preside. 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 “The autobiography of a black American called Frederick Douglass.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z 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 Leading the procession was the Reverend Frederick Douglass Reese, himself a schoolteacher. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Frederick Douglass said: Power concedes nothing without demand. Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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’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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 When Frederick Douglass arrived in Rome, the city, at first, was disappointing. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 Frederick Douglass, who was the most interesting to me. 24 Tense Hours in Abraham Lincoln’s Life 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 “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 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 “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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Frederick Douglass is Even greater now than when he was dead. Style Invitational: Mergers you wrote — combine two businesses 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 One encounter is with Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist. Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 “Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope” bites off a lot, no question, with subjects as varied as Boccaccio, Frederick Douglass and Bertrand Russell. The First Book of Spring 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Morrison joins other Black trailblazers, including writers, who have been featured on Postal Service stamps since 1978, among them James Baldwin, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Novelist Toni Morrison Is Celebrated on Postal Service’s Latest Forever Stamp 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z It quotes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrates the “colorblindness” of Frederick Douglass while ignoring their social and policy critiques that would have them labeled as disciples of wokeism today. Opinion | Celebrate Black history. All of it. 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “We live here, have a right to live here and mean to live here,” abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in his newspaper “The North Star” in 1849. Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But Greenfield, Ohio, wasn't Detroit, and as innovative as Black businessman and engineer Frederick Douglass Patterson was, he lacked Henry Ford’s deep pockets. How America’s first — and only — Black automakers defied the odds 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass stood among them in all his glory and still they tried to deny his brilliance in his presence. 40 years after 'Reading Rainbow,' LeVar Burton is still fighting for literacy 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z William Still was a stationmaster for the Underground Railroad, and Harper, inspired by his work with fugitives, turned to writing poetry for abolitionist newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass’ Paper and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The 1.4-mile tunnel that runs under residential Baltimore will be named after Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in Maryland before escaping north and becoming a renowned abolitionist. Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Officials are preparing to break ground on a $5 billion project that includes a new tunnel named for the abolitionist and Underground Railroad booster Frederick Douglass, which they hope will go into service by 2032. Biden to promote Baltimore spending as Republicans try to force cuts 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z It will be named for Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery in Maryland and became a prominent abolitionist. Biden visit to Baltimore highlights rail tunnel project 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass had to believe that slavery could end, even though there was no reason to think we would go to war to end it. Why '1619 Project' creator is 'proud' to have 'enemies' in Trump, DeSantis 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He's banned the teaching of Black history classes on the grounds that lessons on people like Frederick Douglass or Rosa Parks, for instance, "have no educational value." Sorry, Twitter, but Florida's war on books is no joke. Ron DeSantis wants to keep kids from reading 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Then there is land owned by the National Park Service, such as Anacostia’s Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, monitored by the U.S. ‘Environmental racism’ and the mysterious cars rusting in D.C. woods 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z He was sworn in on a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. Opinion | Wes Moore made history by being elected. Now, he must govern. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z With his hand on a Bible once owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Wes Moore was sworn in Wednesday to become Maryland’s first Black governor and only the third elected in U.S. history. Wes Moore sworn in, making history as Md.’s first Black governor 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Saying the imagery of Maryland’s past is “very personal and emotional to me,” Mr. Moore took the oath of office at the statehouse on a Bible that belonged to Frederick Douglass. Wes Moore sworn in as governor of Maryland, first Black to hold post 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The well-worn Bible, embossed with “Frederick Douglass” on the front, is part of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site museum collection, cared for by the National Park Service. Wes Moore to be sworn in as Md. governor on Frederick Douglass’s Bible 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Moore will take the oath of office using a Bible owned by Frederick Douglass, a Marylander who escaped slavery on the state’s Eastern Shore before going on to become an author and famed abolitionist. Wes Moore to be sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass has been a household name for more than 170 years. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z But when he asked it a more sophisticated question, such as how Frederick Douglass made his argument against the institution of slavery, the response was far less cogent. Teachers are on alert for inevitable cheating after release of ChatGPT 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Thinking that Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, "is being recognized more and more"? Trump's idiotic "trading cards" are the last straw for Republicans — but in God's name, why? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z “By replacing the B&P tunnel with the Frederick Douglass Tunnel, we can make substantial and meaningful time savings,” Bose said. Northeast’s century-old rail bridges, tunnels land $9 billion overhaul 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The political crisis over slavery forced a choice, Frederick Douglass wrote. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In addition to Baltimore Polytechnic, high schools in Memphis, Brooklyn and Tallahassee, as well as Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., are among those offering the class, according to media reports. Teens embrace AP class featuring Black history, a subject under attack 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z He expanded the museum’s contemporary art holdings, and commissioned a multi-screen film installation from the British artist Isaac Julien, who focused on Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist leader who had deep ties to Rochester. Phillips Collection hires art historian as new director 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “This is a state of Harriet Tubman, this is the state of Frederick Douglass, and this is the state of Thurgood Marshall,” he said. Wes Moore projected to win Md. governor’s race in history-making run 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The projected wins for the Democrats would also place the home state of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass at the vanguard of an expected nationwide trend of diversifying political representation as demographics shift. In Md., Black people poised to occupy four critical positions of power 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass humorously exploited the irony of the terminology. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Justice Thomas’ challenge remained consistent from the last affirmative action case the high court considered in 2003 when he quoted Frederick Douglass in his dissent, arguing for equal — not better or worse — treatment. Supreme Court’s two Black justices diverge on affirmative action 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Others, as in the famous case of Frederick Douglass, adopted new names from stories or myths, or simply made them up. What's in a name: Kurdish martyr Jîna Amini and the struggle for culture and history 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z The excerpts feature mostly Black commentators, as well as folk singer Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick’s performance of a song bluntly titled “Burn, Baby, Burn.” Review | ‘Riotsville, USA’ is a history lesson and a meditation on policing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z His obituary began exactly how he feared it would: Frederick Douglass Pollard, the only Black head coach of an NFL team … He was a trailblazer who never saw fresh footprints on his path. Perspective | A legacy of exclusion His book on Frederick Douglass won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for history. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass football lacks the high-end facilities of some other top programs in the D.C. area. Douglass football makes the most of its chances, beats Largo, 29-8 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z He was echoing Frederick Douglass, who a century earlier declared that the Declaration’s promises of liberty and equality are eternal, even if America betrayed those promises. Opinion | How to counter today’s tribalism and build ‘a more perfect union’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He also launched the athletic program at Lexington’s Frederick Douglass High School and twice coached the Kentucky Horsemen Arena Football League team. Eastern Kentucky names Garry McPeak as acting football coach 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Take down images of Robert E. Lee and replace them with Frederick Douglass. Review | In Philadelphia, a monument to end all monuments 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z With this awareness in mind, OpenStax has not censored the racial slur that appears in the excerpt from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography in Chapter 3. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, an enslaved person from Maryland who escaped to the North in 1838, elaborated on this dimension of slavery in his 1845 narrative. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen a White student paralyzed by guilt or anguish from reading Frederick Douglass’s account of being viciously whipped by the plantation overseer. Perspective | DeSantis aims to scare academics. Unfortunately, it’s working. 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “Quite frankly, they may need a family night out, and that’s okay,” Bowser said at a news conference at the Frederick Douglass Community Center in Ward 8. D.C. to provide $1,000 for school expenses to 15,000 needy families 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Water headquarters, the rolling arches of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, the Anacostia River and the hills beyond. These new rooftop bars feature killer cocktails, happy hours and views 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In this selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, elements of the literacy narrative genre as explained in Glance at Genre: The Literacy Narrative are evident. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z One of the people enslaved on Lloyd’s plantation was Frederick Douglass, who escaped in 1838 and became an abolitionist leader, writer, statesman, and orator in the North. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Yes, that Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, writer and polymathic political thinker, who escaped enslavement and became one of the most influential — and photographed — Americans of the 19th century. Thanks to a new musical, Frederick Douglass dances into pop culture 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z A core focus is abolitionist, statesman, writer and “Lion of Anacostia” Frederick Douglass. These D.C. walking tours go far beyond the National Mall 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z As a Black man with long experience of affirmative action, Thomas has argued — echoing the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass — that the supposed benevolence of racial preferences is harmful to those it purports to help. Opinion | The end of affirmative action at colleges could be a good thing 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z In the excerpt from his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, that follows, you will learn about how Douglass learned to read. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Some abolitionists provided financial support, while others, including Frederick Douglass, found the plot suicidal and refused to join. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He confronts Guido Reichstadter, the activist who climbed the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Southeast D.C. two weeks ago in response to the U.S. Parolee pleads with climate activists to open beltway blockade, video shows 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z I’m reminded of the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass who asked in 1852: “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?” Column: This Fourth of July, California backing reparations is the truest form of patriotism 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z By civil rights leaders from Frederick Douglass to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in his “I Have a Dream” speech held up the phrase as a sacred promise to Black Americans. The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’ 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Zimmerman noted that abolitionist Frederick Douglass, suffragist Susan B. Anthony and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were “ardent patriots” who understood they needed to love the nation’s “ideals of liberty and equality.” Independence Day on track to be a conservative holiday, say experts 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Many escaped enslaved people joined the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z And an abortion rights activist who had been atop the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge since Friday morning came down Saturday afternoon, according to D.C. police. Emotional protests continue after Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z From a distance, the protester who stood on top of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in D.C. on Friday appeared to be a speck. Perspective | A dad climbed a bridge to protest the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z The only serious incident involved a demonstrator who climbed to the top of the 70-foot archway over the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, shutting down traffic starting late Friday morning. Protests erupt in D.C., around the country as Roe v. Wade falls 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a good model. Opinion | Sprucing up the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge is a good call 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Some abolitionists, such as Frederick Douglass, believed that standing up against the law necessitated violence. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A pro-choice protester shut down traffic on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in Southeast D.C. Pro-choice protester climbs D.C.’s Douglass bridge, shuts down traffic 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z With a dozen of the city’s pools shuttered due to a lifeguard shortage, families sometimes line up more than an hour before the one at Frederick Douglass Park opens, Ford said. US pools close, go without lifeguards amid labor shortage 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass’s brother Perry Downs, who was enslaved in Texas, recounted hearing his enslaver say that he would run his “property” out of Texas. After Juneteenth, many Black people in Texas remained enslaved 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Newspapers took note when Conna delivered the keynote speech at an Emancipation Day celebration and when he spoke at a local memorial for legendary Black activist Frederick Douglass. Once enslaved, this man helped build Tacoma; his great-granddaughter wants you to know him 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z Supported by leaders such as Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, Truth became a powerful voice in the abolition movement. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z One celebrates the Declaration of Independence, which contains what the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass called “saving principles.” Opinion | Juneteenth is meant to unite us, just like the Fourth of July 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z One such city was New Bedford, Mass., where the renowned Frederick Douglass found his first home after escaping slavery. How Culturally Significant Mammals Tell the Story of Social Ascension for Black Americans 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass was writing about this and wasn’t even calling it the same terms. To capture racism’s impact on health, one epidemiologist suggests going beyond conventional methods 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z A new musical is birthed at Arena Stage, transferring to the stage the oratory and ideas of Frederick Douglass, the great 19th-century abolitionist. Summer theater is cropping up in unexpected places 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Seeing this split occur, Frederick Douglass, a great admirer of Stanton, struggled to argue for a piecemeal approach that should prioritize the franchise for Black men if that was the only option. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z For Patterson, a senior at Frederick Douglass High School, the minute he placed the order for the corsage, the moment set in. Students head to prom after two years of covid restrictions 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Grab a seat on the patio with views of the Anacostia River and the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. These D.C. taprooms offer beer and cider at happy hour prices 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Velazquez, who is still on parole, now works for the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice, organizing prison visitation programs for civilians. How 5 Convicted Murderers Banded Together to Get Out of Prison 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z The District, he guesses, has about 100 in places like Fort DuPont, Rock Creek Park and even around the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. As wild turkeys grow in number, so do risky encounters with humans 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z He tried to enlist Frederick Douglass, America’s leading black abolitionist, but Douglass would have nothing to do with the scheme. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Later, in February, he gathered scores of his supporters at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge for a group photo that was later used to make a campaign video. For Trayon White Sr., D.C. mayoral campaign is a test of grass-roots outreach 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Gurley is president of the Virginia chapter of the Frederick Douglass Foundation. Opinion | Youngkin can deliver the promise of environmental justice for underserved communities 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, an African American who had escaped from slavery, published an antislavery newspaper called The North Star. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z D.C. got its first statue in the Capitol, of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in 2013. Pelosi, D.C. leaders unveil a statue of L’Enfant in Capitol. D.C. sees it as a small step toward statehood. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Maryland runaway Frederick Douglass published his enduring classic Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845 before he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “The District of Columbia singled out Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America for discriminatory treatment based on their pro-life message,” said attorney Erin Hawley. Pro-lifers file appeal against D.C. for ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’ graffiti 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z This is why the Frederick Douglass Foundation, together with the Healthcare Equality Network, is encouraging our state’s leaders to take action and cement themselves as beacons of hope for these overlooked communities. Opinion | Youngkin can deliver the promise of environmental justice for underserved communities 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z In the 1840s, Frederick Douglass became a well-known speaker, writer, and advocate in the abolitionist movement. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Among those highlighted are abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and slave-turned-U.S. What's on TV Monday: ‘All American: Homecoming’ and ‘All American’ on the CW 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Slaves’ clothes and houses were likewise crude, and Frederick Douglass remembered suffering from the cold, but sensible masters issued enough clothing for winter protection. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Students for Life of America and the Frederick Douglass Foundation filed an appeal last Thursday in the U.S. Pro-lifers file appeal against D.C. for ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’ graffiti 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z The second week of February was chosen to honor the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, “The Great Emancipator,” and Frederick Douglass, the brilliant writer and Black abolitionist. Opinion | Washington, Lincoln and the work they left behind 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass supported Lincoln and encouraged other African Americans to help the Union. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A hospital slated to rise east of the Anacostia River takes its name from the nearby estate of abolitionist Frederick Douglass: Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center, GW Health. In nod to mission, new D.C. hospital takes name from Frederick Douglass’s estate 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Venture Smith worked this way in colonial Connecticut, and Frederick Douglass hired his time in Baltimore after leaving Edward Covey. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It’s time to reinvent Frederick Douglass as the equal of Abraham Lincoln in the 19th-century fight to end slavery in the U.S., according to the historian behind Apple TV’s new “Lincoln’s Dilemma” series. Apple TV series recasts Frederick Douglass as Lincoln’s equal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “I believe blacks can achieve in every avenue of American life without the meddling of university administrators,” he wrote in 2003, echoing abolitionist Frederick Douglass. How Supreme Court diversity has shaped American life, visualized He added, “So Frederick Douglass took it upon himself to lobby Lincoln when it came to Black military service.” 200,000 Black men fought in the Civil War. Some lawmakers want to give them the Congressional Gold Medal. 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z That’s over three miles of trails that start right where the new trail piece from the Frederick Douglass Bridge stops and goes all the way down to Blue Plains, at the edge of the District. D.C. wants to double its 24 miles of protected bike lanes. It plans to start with 10 miles this year. 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Perfectly aware of white Republicans’ shortcomings, Frederick Douglass still endorsed Lincoln and reminded black Americans that Lincoln’s election “must and will be hailed as an antislavery triumph.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Frederick Douglass was as great as Lincoln, a great reformer who had been enslaved and was very prolific, a great orator who was magnetic at getting his passion across,” Mr. Reynolds said. Apple TV series recasts Frederick Douglass as Lincoln’s equal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The designated week was set for the second week in February to mark the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, according to the Library of Congress. Black History Month founder showed how schools should teach about race 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But the annual peace walk across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge had an additional purpose on Monday: pushing the Senate to pass new voting rights legislation. Marchers Honor King and Call on Senate to Pass Voting Rights Legislation 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Oh, and one more thing: “the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.” Hey, Virginia lawmakers, the Lincoln-Douglas debates did not feature Frederick Douglass 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass voiced their hopes as early as the summer of 1861. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Frederick Douglass is more featured in this film,” Mr. Reynolds said. Apple TV series recasts Frederick Douglass as Lincoln’s equal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The march toward the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, which recently reopened after an ambitious rebuilding, will begin at 10 a.m. MLK Day: King family to lead D.C. march for voting rights 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Among the escapees who passed through the city during the Seneca Village period was the strikingly handsome Frederick Douglass, a fugitive from Baltimore who was soon to become among the greatest orators of his day. Opinion | In Search of the Black Utopia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z It is a clear reference to the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates, one of the high points in this country’s intellectual, moral and civic history, but there’s just one problem: Lincoln did not debate Frederick Douglass. Hey, Virginia lawmakers, the Lincoln-Douglas debates did not feature Frederick Douglass 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass pointed to his fistfight with Edward Covey as the psychological turning point that inspired him to seize control of his life. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “The importance of Frederick Douglass is that he was one of several consciences who goaded Lincoln to direct the war toward emancipation,” Mr. Reynold said. Apple TV series recasts Frederick Douglass as Lincoln’s equal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Her daughter is a public high school student at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem. Meisha Porter Had 3 Goals as Schools Chief: ‘Open. Open. Open.’ 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The new Frederick Douglass Tunnel would reduce trip times by allowing speeds as fast as 100 miles per hour, up from the current maximum speed of 30 miles per hour. Billions in Amtrak Funding Could Modernize Aging Rail System 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z We owe her the scholarly care reserved for men like Frederick Douglass and Frantz Fanon, as bell was equally profound and prolific. Appreciation: Here's what we all owe bell hooks, beginning with me 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z His first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, became a contemporary best seller and a classic account of a slave’s struggle for freedom, identity, and manhood. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z That is why, after Lincoln’s election, Frederick Douglass called the abolitionist masses “the power behind the throne.” Opinion | Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z To teach Shakespeare and Toni Morrison, to read Gabriel García Márquez or Frederick Douglass, is to elicit swells of emotions, they said, out of which can arise introspection and self-recognition, sorrow and joy. In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Today’s U.S. racial divisions could find a model for healing in the unlikely friendship of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, according to the latest book by Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade sees lessons for racial healing in new book on Lincoln-Douglass friendship 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z In past generations, Marylanders such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass made America’s democracy more fair and more just through selfless and courageous leadership. Opinion | Maryland must lead on gerrymandering 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass’s furious battle demonstrated that the love of freedom did not die, no matter how subdued a slave might appear. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Prominent writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass called the neighborhood home until his death in 1895. In D.C.’s Anacostia, the past abounds alongside advocacy for its future 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z A lawsuit filed by teachers, students and parents said the district also removed commonly taught texts by Black authors from the curriculum, including the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. New laws steer some teachers away from race-related topics 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and a young Frederick Douglass regarded the U.S. Opinion | For a model of how to teach on the subject of American racism, turn to Frederick Douglass 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z On that fateful Sunday in May 2017, he drove from Columbus to Phenix City to pick up a friend at the Frederick Douglass Homes, a public-housing complex with mostly Black residents. How Police Justify Killing Drivers: The Vehicle Was a Weapon 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z Edward Covey hired Frederick Douglass on this basis. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Right-wing attacks on critical race theory also ignore work by prominent Black scholars ranging from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. How higher education can win the war against neoliberalism and white supremacy 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Especially when the weather is nice I enjoy walking outdoors, so my day would likely start with a walk on the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge or even walking along Anacostia Park. How DJ Heat would spend a perfect day in D.C. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass looked at the same crimes, expressed the same anger, but eventually took the position that slavery could be ended through activism and political engagement. Opinion | Of all the conservative bans on teaching about racism, the one in Texas is the worst 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z A protest booklet, written by journalist Ida B. Wells and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, among others, also called Columbus’s legacy into question. Columbus monuments are coming down, but he’s still honored in 6,000 places across the U.S. Here’s where. Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, J. W. C. Pennington, and numerous other runaways founded a rich literary tradition with autobiographies detailing their own experiences as slaves. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z She knew the Eastern Shore’s history: It was where the abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were born into slavery. Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then ‘Everything Just Imploded.’ 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Three men in the top 50 are men of color: King, Tecumseh and Frederick Douglass. America’s 50,000 monuments: More mermaids than congresswomen, more Confederates than abolitionists 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Scott County High School players were on the bus coming back from a game against Frederick Douglass in Lexington as it became engulfed in flames. Kentucky high school football team's bus engulfed in flames while returning home 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass was asked two months after that to speak to an abolitionist group. Rev. William J. Barber II: America is now at the "most critical time, between life and death" 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Maryland runaway Frederick Douglass became one of the country’s most renowned antislavery orators after gaining his freedom in the 1840s. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Commuters idled in traffic jams, planners spent countless hours on studies and politicians debated for more than a decade as road crews patched and paved a crumbling Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. New $480 million Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge begins opening week with a Labor Day celebration 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Robert S. Levine’s “The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson” opens with an extraordinary scene not often recorded in history books. Review | An abolitionist’s hope meets a president’s hypocrisy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z America needs the pathos of the Rev. Frederick Douglass Haynes III of Dallas, fighting for voting rights. Why America needs the Black church for its own survival 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Ezra Greenspan, a professor at Southern Methodist University in Texas, learned about the headstone project through his work on a biography of the extended family of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Black cemetery headstones were used as scrap. Now area leaders are ‘righting a wrong’ 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Garrison’s harsh rhetoric and uncompromising style angered most white Americans, but won support from free blacks, who composed three-quarters of the Liberator’s early subscribers, and leading black abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, she will be joined by other leaders, as well as descendants of Frederick Douglass, for a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. New $480 million Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge begins opening week with a Labor Day celebration 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The Black abolitionist William G. Allen wrote in 1852 that “in versatility of oratorical power, I know of no one who can begin to approach the celebrated Frederick Douglass.” Review | An abolitionist’s hope meets a president’s hypocrisy 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge will open to traffic in early September, D.C. transportation officials said Tuesday. New Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to open in early September, ahead of schedule 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Republicans were already rolling their eyes at the media hype surrounding the runaway Texas Democrats even before Vice President Kamala D. Harris compared them to Frederick Douglass and activists from the civil-rights era. Runaway Texas Democrats toasted on left, roasted on right 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass gave personal testimony on the horrors of plantation life and raised funds for the aid of fellow fugitives, finally splitting with Garrison over the issue of nonresistance. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “Frederick Douglass would be smiling in his grave right now. I’m smiling for him,” said James Lovell, a musician from Gainesville, Va., who originally is from Belize. New $480 million Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge begins opening week with a Labor Day celebration 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z I thought of Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?" What is post-Trump patriotism? 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z In the years just before his death, Frederick Douglass, the great Black orator and abolitionist, spent a two-year stint as the American consul to Haiti. Analysis | Haiti’s fate is intertwined with the U.S. 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, in a speech 3 years after Morton’s death, called research that ranked the humanity of races “scientific moonshine.” A racist scientist built a collection of human skulls. Should we still study them? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The Seneca Falls convention attracted about 300 white and black attendees, most of them abolitionists and about one-third of them male, including Frederick Douglass from nearby Rochester. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z This year, another type of explosion is preoccupying me — not the grand orations of our Founding Fathers but Frederick Douglass’ 1852 jeremiad, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Independence looks different this July 4, thanks to the hell year that was 2020 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z A: Our Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, that will be coming online a few months from now, is a major project I’m really excited about. With a focus on equity, Everett Lott takes helm of agency overseeing how people get around D.C. 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z “And then we jumped to Martin Luther King Jr., and that’s it. We didn’t read ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ or anything by Frederick Douglass.” Perspective | The newest comic book superhero: An enslaved man turned immortal 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z They ignore any work by prominent Black scholars, ranging from Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Taking the name of a popular fictional hero, he became “Frederick Douglass,” a thrilling antislavery orator and abolitionist celebrity. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Some students from Frederick Douglass High School, across from the mall and the alma mater of the civil rights giant Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man to serve on the U.S. Target Store Closings Show Limits of Pledge to Black Communities 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass delivered his famed 1852 speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” on July 5. July 4, Juneteenth and the meaning of national holidays 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Instead of the District of Columbia, the new state would be known as Washington, Douglass Commonwealth — named after famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1895. DC statehood facing long odds in the Senate 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z From picnics to the Anacostia River Festival, the park remains a community space, though residents wonder what changes the upcoming Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge and 11th Street Bridge Park will bring. Fairlawn, a green gem in Anacostia, seeks to stay family-friendly amid change 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Like the young Frederick Douglass, aggrieved slaves more commonly took to the woods temporarily, to avoid a sale, to escape an unbearable punishment, or to visit a distant family. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier he gathered with a group of mostly Black male supporters at Frederick Douglass Circle. Battle for Black Voters in N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race Centers on Policing 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Officials in Britain’s Foreign Office did stumble upon a photo that appears on the Wikipedia page for Frederick Douglass, showing a mural of the famed abolitionist that was painted on an Edinburgh street. Did Biden give Boris Johnson a $6,000 bike and get a Wikipedia printout in return? Not exactly. 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The image of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement, is part of Edinburgh's mural trail. PM gifts photo of Edinburgh anti-slavery mural to Biden 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z President Joe Biden a framed photograph of a British mural depicting Black 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the British leader's office said on Thursday. With a nod to Black Lives Matter, UK's Johnson gives Biden mural photo 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The few Black figures — Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — were those who accomplished much in spite of slavery, segregation and institutional injustices in American society. Opinion | Tom Hanks: You Should Learn the Truth About the Tulsa Race Massacre 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z In “The Good Lord Bird,” audiences may have learned something surprising about Frederick Douglass: namely that he apparently cohabitates with two women at the same time. 'Bridgerton,' 'Dickinson,' 'Good Lord Bird': It's all 'truth,' if not historic fact 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Len Bias dropped buckets in Frederick Douglass’s home state, where I was raised. Poem: Len Bias, a Bouquet of Flowers, and Ms. Brooks 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The image of Frederick Douglass was painted by Ross Blair and the photograph was taken by Melissa Highton - a UK-US dual national. PM gifts photo of Edinburgh anti-slavery mural to Biden 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z As an adage attributed, perhaps incorrectly, to Frederick Douglass puts it, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Opinion | ‘If You Would Go Out on a Limb for Us, It Might Just Save Our Lives’ 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z Read one of Frederick Douglass’ autobiographies for his insight that killing a slave’s soul was far worse being killed. Calendar Feedback: Directors should honor African Americans by hiring Black Americans to play them 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, for example, felt incandescent anger at the “hideous and revolting” hypocrisy of the free country where he was born into enslavement. Opinion | When it comes to knowing U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and it never will.” Opinion | D.C. statehood fight must concede nothing 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Buttigieg made the announcement at an event at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, which is decades old and is being modernized. Reversing Trump, Buttigieg reinstates local hiring program 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z This one might last a little longer, but Callender describes it as “an interim use project,” lasting until the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is completed, and the old bridge structure is demolished. Happy hour again: These are the new outdoor bars you might have missed over the last year 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z A decade later, in the 1860s, the formerly enslaved abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth tried to counter racist propaganda with their own imagery. The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Similar stories, like Kyle Baker’s series “Nat Turner,” about the slave rebellion, and David F. Walker’s “The Life of Frederick Douglass” offered lessons about history, revolution and resistance. Yes, lots of comics were racist. A new generation of Black artists is reinventing them 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z The city’s other residential and commercial areas would become the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House Democrats pass D.C. statehood, launching bill into uncharted territory 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The new state would be named “Washington, Douglass Commonwealth” after George Washington, the first U.S. president, and Frederick Douglass, a former enslaved person who became a famous abolitionist. U.S. House prepares to say yes to making Washington, D.C., the 51st state 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The state would be renamed the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth in honor of civil rights icon Frederick Douglass. White House announces formal support for D.C. statehood bill 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Upon learning to read while enslaved, Frederick Douglass began his great journey of emancipation, as such journeys always begin, in the mind. Opinion | Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Mary died at 18 of tuberculosis; Emily later returned to the District and helped to settle Anacostia alongside fellow Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Desperate for freedom, 77 enslaved people tried to escape aboard the Pearl. They almost made it. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The rest of the city’s residential and commercial areas would become the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, honoring the abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House committee approves D.C. statehood, setting up likely passage in the full chamber 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery by stepping aboard an already moving train heading north from Baltimore. Opinion | Technologies give velocity to stupidity, but they don’t make people stupid 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z When designs for the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge were discussed by the U.S. Washington is a city of great bridges and terrible bridges. These are their stories. The rest of the District would become the 51st state: the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth — honoring abolitionist Frederick Douglass. ‘It’s not a local issue anymore’: D.C. statehood moves from political fringe to the center of the national Democratic agenda 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Patrick Amoyaw, 18, a senior at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, hasn’t worn his football gear in more than a year. The Missing Hours: 7 Students on Losing a Year of After-School Activities 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z In 2005, Mr. Morris brought before Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan a proposal to name that block Frederick Douglass Landing. He Honors Black New Yorkers. Not All Black Activists Are Thrilled. 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Their eldest son, James Wormley, would become close friends with abolitionists Charles Sumner and Frederick Douglass. Perspective | A Commerce nominee’s formerly enslaved ancestors ran a taxi service where the department is now headquartered 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z What’s more, Black abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart and Henry Highland Garnet were crucial in spreading information about the horrors of slavery years before the war. Perspective | Five myths about Black history 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “There is nothing like real-time,” Black Studies Center Director Frederick Douglass Dixon said after the first image appeared. Wyoming university event interrupted, investigation launched 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z As part of Black History Trilogy, a series of virtual productions from Flushing Town Hall, in Queens, the 2019 Tony winner André De Shields will portray Frederick Douglass in a stirring one-man performance. Revel in the Power of Theater 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z As the birthplace of, among others, Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Eubie Blake and Thurgood Marshall, my adopted home state of Maryland has a wealth of Black native sons and daughters worth celebrating. Theophilus Thompson of Maryland blazed a trail for Black chess players, despite hurdles 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z February was chosen because of the correlation with the birthdays of abolitionist author Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Editorial Roundup: West Virginia 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z A long line of Black thinkers, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells and Du Bois, believed that the answer could be found in social protest. The Power of Social Justice Movements 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z It recently made moves into audiobooks, experimenting with offering recordings of celebrities reading public domain books like Frankenstein, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Spotify subscribers surge past 150 million 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z While his 2007 study of Frederick Douglass and Lincoln, “The Radical and the Republican,” juxtaposed Douglass the crusading reformer with Lincoln the cautious politician, this volume foregrounds the commonalities between the two men. Review | Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power — and limits — in the Constitution 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Meanwhile in Virginia, police recently found graffiti with white nationalist messages near an elementary school in Leesburg named after Frederick Douglass, the famed Black abolitionist. Muslim group denounces racist graffiti 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Dr. Blight also criticized the way the report “appropriates” Black leaders like Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he said recalled longstanding myths of “Black Confederates.” The Ideas Behind Trump’s 1776 Commission Report 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Bas reliefs on the entablature feature important thinkers such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. Pioneer of the L.A. look: Paul R. Williams wasn't just 'architect to the stars,' he shaped the city 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z As Frederick Douglass once wrote about escaping slavery, “I prayed for 20 years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” Opinion | We Need a Second Great Migration 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He is the author, most recently, of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” Opinion | How Trumpism May Endure 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z He would rather, he said, suffer "pestilence and famine" than see Frederick Douglass, a Black man and former slave, elected president. "Fort Trump": President wants to rename base honoring Confederate general for himself 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke at the unveiling, noting that the “Great Emancipator” Lincoln was reluctant to free enslaved people, and when he did so, it applied only to enslaved people in Confederate states. Controversial Lincoln statue is removed in Boston, but remains in D.C. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “What I want to see before I die,” Frederick Douglass wrote, “is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.” Opinion | Don’t ‘better explain’ the Emancipation Memorial. Put up monuments to Black people instead. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z These are the churches where freed enslaved people found assistance, where abolitionists preached, where Mary McLeod Bethune and Frederick Douglass worshiped. Perspective | Trump has helped keep the flames of hatred alive. It’s up to us to make sure the flames go out. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass reacted with outrage, saying the decision felt like a “moral cyclone.” Opinion | How Trumpism May Endure 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z In the words of Frederick Douglass, “Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” Opinion | Whether the slogan is defund or reform the police, change is needed 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z There are lengthy histories of just a handful of named enslaved African Americans — think Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass — because the data is not organized to allow for that. A massive new effort to name millions sold into bondage during the transatlantic slave trade 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z “Spider-Man: Homecoming” was also shot in part at two area high schools, each of which received $17,000 in return from producers: Frederick Douglass High School and Henry W. Grady High School. ‘Spider-Man’ actors may be allowed inside Atlanta schools before students — and some families are upset 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The students settled on Frederick Douglass and his wife, who helped him escape slavery. Chicago park renamed for abolitionist Frederick Douglass 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The plaintiffs are listed as the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America. D.C. government sued by pro-life chalk artists 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks,” said Frederick Douglass shortly before the end of Reconstruction, “What will peace among the whites bring?” Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z I heard David Blight interviewed about a book he wrote about Frederick Douglass. Perspective | How systemic racism affects financial choices: Readers respond to ‘Sincerely, Michelle’ series 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z The award was presented online at the 24th Annual Frederick Douglass Awards ceremony, which featured remarks from members of the defense team and from Flowers. Curtis Flowers defense team receives human rights award 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z His great-grandfather was a son of Frederick Douglass and was buried at Columbian Harmony, as was Greene’s grandfather. A Virginia state senator found headstones on his property. It brought to light a historic injustice in D.C. 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass fought for an “invincible abhorrence of the whole system of slaveholding” to be “fixed in the soul of the nation.” Biden and Trump Say They’re Fighting for America’s ‘Soul.’ What Does That Mean? 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Under President James Buchanan, slaveholders were free to do as they liked; as Frederick Douglass complained, slave traders actually flew the Stars and Stripes as they carried their human cargoes back from Africa. Wide Awakes: the Lincoln-era youth movement inspiring anti-Trump protests 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist orator and publisher, and Antonio Maceo, the celebrated military hero of the Cuban independence movement, are rarely if ever mentioned together. The Whitewashing of Black Genius 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z It is not until the third episode, when Brown sits at Frederick Douglass’s dinner table, that the abolitionist is finally challenged on any of his assumptions. ‘The Good Lord Bird’ Is Good TV. But Mix Art and Slavery at Your Peril. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z He joined Frederick Douglass in giving speeches calling for the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed that no citizen could be kept from voting “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” A 19th-century baseball player fought for Black suffrage — and was killed for it 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Escaped slave Harriet "Moses" Tubman understood the Underground Railroad as a Christian project of liberation, while escaped slave Frederick Douglass fought for abolition through churches across the north in the pre-Civil War years. The rise of Christian Nationalism in America 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z It could have been squashed on the title page of Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer,” or Frederick Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom.” Cascade of title pages, and one squashed fly, help mark 150 years of the U.S. Copyright Office 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass wrote that the 4th of July was not for him and yet he insisted on the possibilities of the American project. The opioid crisis — and now the pandemic — show how Americans don't believe in the social contract 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Student for Life and Frederick Douglass Foundation joined with local Baltimore pro-life activists outside the Planned Parenthood to paint on the street early this morning! Pro-life activists paint ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’ in front of Baltimore Planned Parenthood 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z "Frederick Douglass once said, 'power concedes nothing without a demand'. I hope that these protests fuel powerful demands that lead to the transformation we've been longing for." Why 'progressive Portland' is at the centre of US protests 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman - both from Maryland’s Eastern Shore - and a few other Black leaders made the Trump administration’s hero list, but not anyone known for their Native American, Hispanic or Asian heritage. Maryland’s Black history represented in hero recommendations 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and a few other Black leaders made the Trump administration’s hero list, but not anyone known for their Native American, Hispanic or Asian heritage. George Floyd? Donald Trump? Hero statue nominations are in 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z The Chicago Park District in July rededicated a park for Frederick Douglass, the Black scholar and abolitionist. Douglas’ statue to be removed from Illinois Capitol lawn 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z She worked closely with Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and frequently met with leaders in Black churches and with Black students on college campuses. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting when women couldn’t. Now Trump will pardon her. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Sentiments like this made her a close friend of Frederick Douglass, the self-emancipated abolition pioneer. The 19th amendment is a reminder that the right to vote is unfinished business | Moira Donegan 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z In conversation with the Guardian in 2018, meanwhile, David Blight, a Pulitzer-winning biographer of Frederick Douglass, noted the “brutal racism” Anthony and other campaigners displayed when black men won the vote in 1870. Trump to pardon women's suffrage leader Susan B Anthony 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The fervor led protesters to deface and destroy not just memorials linked to the Confederacy but also statues of abolitionists who fought to end slavery, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. 119 Confederate statues removed since George Floyd died 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z We believe this is the description of the monument that abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he would like to see. Opinion | A new statue of Lincoln will adequately honor him alongside Black Americans 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass was the first black man to speak in the Illinois state Capitol, addressing large crowds on April 3 and 4, 1866, on Lincoln’s assassination and Reconstruction. Springfield’s Douglas Park could be renamed for Douglass 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Levin said the Frederick Douglass Foundation confirmed they had the necessary permits as well. Mark Levin: Arrest of peaceful pro-life protesters in DC is example of the left’s ‘totalitarian purification’ 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Pro-life groups led by Students for Life of America and the Frederick Douglass Foundation are scheduled at 10 a.m. Pro-lifers win permission to paint ‘Black Preborn Lives Matter’ on D.C. street 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Davon was shot at the end of a Fourth of July stop-the-violence cookout in the Frederick Douglass Garden apartments on Cedar Street SE. After fatal shooting of 11-year-old, suspects’ past firearms arrests in spotlight 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Lewis lived, fought and triumphed by the words of Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Opinion | How to remember John Lewis 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z More than 200 miles away in Rochester, New York, a statue of Frederick Douglass was torn off its base on July 5, the anniversary of one of Douglass’ most famous speeches. Statue honoring Union volunteer regiment found smashed 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Citing Frederick Douglass, an escaped enslaved person and abolitionist who called the Constitution “a glorious liberty document,” Pompeo added, “America is special. America is good. America does good, all around the world.” Pompeo says protesters and mainstream media are attacking American way of life 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z In his July 10 column, Matt Bai mentioned Frederick Douglass’s speech at the unveiling ceremony of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington with the kneeling “freed” enslaved person. Opinion | We don’t need statues to know history 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, the former slave and abolitionist who spoke at the memorial’s 1876 unveiling, was among those who criticized the sculpture for denigrating African Americans. For Eleanor Holmes Norton, new urgency for long-fought battles 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “Frederick Douglass said,” the sixth-grader tells his classmates, “once said, ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progress.’ Perspective | An 11-year-old boy’s killing isn’t proof black lives don’t matter to black people. It’s proof of our collective failure. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Cedar Street SE is situated next to the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, which preserves the landscape and home of Frederick Douglass. Opinion | What would Frederick Douglass think of the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal? 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Cedar Street is a strip of asphalt that rises slightly through rows of boxy red-brick apartments steps from where abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass lived the last 17 years of his life. On a D.C. street beset by gun violence, calls to fix policing, not defund it 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z "You saw a catalog of weekend violence, killings and more protests. Not least was the toppling in Rochester, N.Y., of a statue of Frederick Douglass, a founding father of Black American pride," he said. Mainstream media 'crossed the Rubicon' with flagrant lies about Trump's Mount Rushmore speech, WSJ columnist says 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Protesters in Wisconsin this month ripped down the "Forward" statue, a depiction of a woman who symbolizes progress, and last weekend, vandals in Rochester, N.Y., pulled down and damaged a monument to abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Melania Trump statue in Slovenia set on fire on Fourth of July; suspects sought 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Davon was shot in the head near the Frederick Douglass Community Center while heading to get ear buds and a cellphone charger from a relative’s residence. Perspective | An 11-year-old boy’s killing isn’t proof black lives don’t matter to black people. It’s proof of our collective failure. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z A private security vehicle was parked on the block near the Frederick Douglass Garden Apartments. Opinion | What would Frederick Douglass think of the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal? 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Jarvis launched on a course of independent study, a journey through the works of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. He's Black, Republican and working to reelect Trump. It's not easy 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Turner concluded by describing Messing as someone among those "who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground," quoting abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Nina Turner calls Debra Messing 'racist' amid escalating Twitter spat about Black voters 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass knew back in the 19th century that Black images mattered. Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z In another corner appears the face of Frederick Douglass and some of his most famous words: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Perspective | An 11-year-old boy’s killing isn’t proof black lives don’t matter to black people. It’s proof of our collective failure. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Were Frederick Douglass at home on July 4, he would have heard the gunshots and the sounds of Davon’s wailing family. Opinion | What would Frederick Douglass think of the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal? 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and famous orator, delivered a fiery speech about Lincoln’s conflicted legacy, explaining Lincoln only reluctantly issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Depicted kneeling before Lincoln, this enslaved man broke his own chains in pursuit of freedom 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its base in Rochester, N.Y., on the anniversary of one of his most famous speeches, which he delivered in that city in 1852. Frederick Douglass statue vandalized in New York park on anniversary of famous Fourth of July speech 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Here’s more from the Associated Press on the removal of the Frederick Douglass statue overnight. Trump demands Nascar driver Bubba Wallace apologize over noose incident – live 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass was not a slave owner, not a Confederate general, nor even a “white savior” abolitionist. Vandals deface Frederick Douglass statue in New York 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Young Frederick Douglass grew up around black men and women bearing physical scars from whippings, beatings and brandings. Opinion | What would Frederick Douglass think of the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal? 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The video's disturbing images were over a backdrop of fireworks and actor James Earl James reading 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Kaepernick denounces 4th of July as ‘celebration of white supremacy’ 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z He always carries with him the text of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” America on its 244th birthday: Dark skies, canceled parades, but also new hope 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z These words, part of a speech delivered by the esteemed Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, were penned in 1852. Check your patriotism 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z They would call the new state “Douglass Commonwealth,” named after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Lack of political offset for Republicans makes DC statehood effort more difficult for Dems 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z When Akiboh taught in Chicago, her students assumed that the local park in a majority Black and Latino neighborhood was named for Frederick Douglass, the famed abolitionist. 'The worshipping of whiteness': why racist symbols persist in America 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Goodwin suggested replacing the statue with a "contemporaneous African-American who is then a part of the charge," suggesting Tubman or abolitionist statesman Frederick Douglass. Activist suggests replacing DC's Emancipation Memorial with Harriet Tubman monument: 'Fair and equitable' 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z They also took issue with the autobiography of African American anti-slavery writer Frederick Douglass, who fought back against a farmer who whipped him, ran away to Massachusetts and became a writer and orator. 'How George Floyd's death changed my Chinese students' 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Distinguished abolitionist Frederick Douglass is quoted as saying, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Opinion | Arlington has to do more to improve the lives of its black children 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z On April 14, 1876, Frederick Douglass arrived at the unveiling ceremony for the Emancipation Memorial, the statue now under attack by some protesters in Washington’s Lincoln Park. Frederick Douglass delivered a Lincoln reality check at Emancipation Memorial unveiling 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z “Power concedes nothing without a demand. And statehood is our demand,” the fifth-generation Washingtonian said in a statement, referencing a famous quote from abolitionist and onetime D.C. resident Frederick Douglass. D.C. statehood approved by U.S. House for first time in history 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The measure would rename Washington, DC “Douglass Commonwealth,” after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House to vote on DC statehood, as effort faces Republican opposition 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z But when Emmett was standing outside of that grocery store, he wasn't thinking about Frederick Douglass. Cornel West on this moment of "escalating consciousness" and the need for radical democracy 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The state would be named Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, after George Washington, the first U.S. president, and Frederick Douglass, a former enslaved person turned famed abolitionist. U.S. House on verge of approving Washington, D.C., statehood 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered the keynote address to the crowd, which included many black Washingtonians. Protesters denounce Abraham Lincoln statue in D.C., urge removal of Emancipation Memorial 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The new state would be known as Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, after Maryland abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Pelosi says DC statehood bill would right a 'grave injustice' 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z |
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