Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had travelled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass, born on a Maryland plantation 200 years ago this month, never knew on what February day because history-deprivation was ...

Frederick Douglass is just two years removed from its first appearance in the Girls’ Sweet 16, but the team that’ll take the floor on Wednesday is essentially brand new. Douglass went one-and ...

Quentin Earl Darrington as Frederick Douglass, left, and Ivan Hernandez as President Abraham Lincoln in rehearsal for La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere of “3 Summers of Lincoln.” ...

Less than 30 seconds into the 11th Region Tournament girls basketball championship game, a Madison Central turnover gave way to a Frederick Douglass basket, putting the Broncos in front by five.

click image for close-up By the time this photograph of Frederick Douglass was taken, slavery in the United States had been abolished. After the Civil War Douglass would to fight for the rights of ...