In 1964, he was one of the first three African Americans to compete in wrestling at the Games. He went on to have a distinguished coaching career.

Douglass Byers was convicted of firing a rifle shot that pierced the tail of an LAPD helicopter in South L.A. last year. Prosecutors say the round could have caused a catastrophic helicopter crash.

On March 25, however, the Navy was reminded that one didn’t need a war to be imperiled by the sea, as F-4 sank with Lt.

How do the KHSAA Girls Sweet 16 participants stack up? Before play tips off Wednesday at Rupp Arena, we rank the field from ...

Every February in Baltimore, the air carries a double weight. The wind off the harbor is still sharp, but the calendar insists on remembrance. We move through Black History Month with a familiar ...

Frederick Douglass had just returned home from the meeting of National Council of Women on Feb. 20, 1895 when he collapsed from a heart attack in the hallway of his Washington, D.C. home. While he ...

University librarian Kate Topham speaks at the Douglass Day event in Hatcher Graduate Library Friday morning. Varun Tandon/DAILY. Buy this photo. After escaping slavery in 1838, Douglass became a ...

WASHINGTON (WCAX) - The House Press Gallery at the U.S. Capitol has been officially renamed the Frederick Douglass Press Gallery, marking the first time since its inception that the facility bears the ...

Lawmakers are honoring the abolitionist during Black History Month, amid national debate over how U.S. history is taught. The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed in honor ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday named its press gallery after Frederick Douglass, 150 years after the famed 19th-century orator and abolitionist ...

Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a cord and unveiled a plaque hanging above a door at the end of a cramped hallway on the Capitol’s third floor. For the first time, a press gallery on Capitol Hill was ...