When Tarence Bailey Sr. received a formal memo from the Maryland National Guard declining to support a celebration for ...

On February 6, 2025, a statue of Frederick Douglass was unveiled at the Hall of Justice in Rochester. Positioned in the ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Exactly 130 years after Frederick Douglass’ death, the Talbot County-born abolitionist and civil rights leader was honored for his lasting impact on freedom, equality and education.

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

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When local lecturer and historian Muqueedah Salaam first attended college as a young adult at Worcester State University, she ...

Educator and historian Carter G. Woodson was the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American ...

Discover the inspiring story of Isaac Myers, a pioneering Baltimore caulker and advocate for union rights, who fought for fair wages and equal opportunities for Black workers in the 1800s.

NEW YORK (AP) — Reporting on four of the world's major conflict zones — Israel, Sudan, Ukraine and Haiti — was honored Monday with George Polk awards, one of journalism's highest honors. And one of ...

TADAMON, Syria (AP) — Security forces in Syria said on Monday that they arrested three people involved in the execution of hundreds of civilians by government forces in Damascus in 2013, two years ...