The story of Frederick Douglass’s fight for universal suffrage from the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow.To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via ...

One of Frederick Douglass’ ancestors who lives in D.C. is reflecting on American progress as the nation marks its 250th anniversary.

Opinion: This Black History Month, the legacy of Frederick Douglass offer lessons for the work that comes next.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Black lawmakers. The ...

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 ...

A special visitor is in Philadelphia this Black History Month. Kevin Douglass Green, the great, great grandson of 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, is spending the week visiting ...

Black History Month is an entire month devoted to putting a spotlight on African Americans who have made contributions to our ...

Into the Allentown courtroom where abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke to a capacity crowd 155 years ago stepped his contemporary doppelganger, a scholar and reenactor named Darius Wallace who ...