Plans have been submitted for an Edinburgh city centre plaque to mark spot where a former US slave and leading abolitionist ...

Author Thomas Fellows talks about why he believes that, in retrospect, Frederick Douglass should have gone down in history as ...

Each February, the United States commemorates the impressive contributions of black individuals. Black History Month traces ...

John Brown was not content with speeches, petitions, or polite reform. He believed slavery was a crime so extreme that only force could end it. His meeting with Frederick Douglass exposed a plan that ...

Four people have died since mid-November, state health officials say.

East End Arts presents large-scale mosaic portraits of prominent figures in the civil rights movement created by Long Island ...

The life and career of Louisiana’s pioneering civil rights politician, who briefly served as the nation’s first Black ...

An outspoken state senator is scheduled to make remarks Sunday at the International Servant Leaders Museum in Morton Grove, ...

Howie's Waterloo Place, near Calton Hill, has uncovered some hidden history behind the popular restaurant's Georgian venue. Restaurant director, David Howie Scott, has submitted a planning application ...

A bill to place the Ten Commandments in Hoosier public schools cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday – but in a scaled-back form that leaves decisions over whether to display ...

The Texas Education Agency compiled a list of nearly 300 English and Spanish literary works that officials recommended students read in public schools, but the State Board of Education moved to table ...

It may seem astonishing today, but the most famous line in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech delivered on the ...