The Maryland Reparations Commission will examine the state’s history of slavery and provide recommendations on a manner of compensation to slave descendants. PHOTO BY MICHAŁ ...

Part of it is to demote Jackson, the President who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation and signed ... manner of abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass.” In Lincoln’s last ...

Frederick Douglass (who once worked at the Wye House ... Descendants of both the African-American founders and the white plantation owners for whom they’d toiled clapped, sang, marched, danced ...

Frederick Douglass was such a prolific journalist ... this,’ even while they could see nothing beyond the master’s plantation. For me, Harriet Tubman, the former slave, Underground Railroad ...

The month of April marks both Black Women's History Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. While the overlap may have been ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

He recognized that he had put his faith in men and institutions over the higher power of destiny. What Douglass, a devout man, believed was the hand of god. He was a genius and a moral giant in 1857 ...

“This week Steve Schmidt related a story told to him by Bishop William Barber about a conversation between Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. We all probably have moments of doubt in dark time ...

Over its 45 year history, the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble’s Theatre in the Classroom shows have covered a wide variety of topics including inventors and their inventions, ancient myths, space travel, ...