When Frederick Douglass traveled to Britain in 1845, he was well known as an abolitionist writer and orator. But his celebrity didn’t alter his legal status: escaped slave. So while Douglass was in ...

This is a collection of original and edited video materials created through a joint project with the Anacostia Community Museum Archives and the American University Center for Community Voice. The end ...

Greg Lampe explores the life of the great 19th-century orator and civil rights leader. Greg Lampe, Professor Emeritus in the UW Colleges Department of Communication Arts, is interviewed by Wisconsin ...

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man who climbed the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge remained atop the structure for a fourth day Monday as police continued ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

A view of “Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass” at the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum. (Isaac Julien and Victoria Miro/SCAD) Review by Mark Jenkins When Frederick ...