Search results
What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBorn into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America....
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoSeveral years before Granger made his declaration in Galveston, famed American orator Frederick Douglass, himself a former enslaved man, spoke to an...
22 Ida B. Wells Quotes About Injustice, Truth and Virtue
Parade via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIda B. Wells was a remarkable human: a groundbreaking African American journalist, civil rights...
Need a 4th of July caption? 30 patriotic quotes to honor America and its history
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoIt means looking out for yourself by looking out for...
5 Black History Landmarks in the U.S. You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
AFAR· 3 days agoMuseums like Nashville’s National Museum of African American Music and the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, are some of the best places to learn about Black ...
Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
NPR· 1 day agoFADEL: And as Connolly told me, the Proclamation represents both freedom and an unfulfilled promise. CONNOLLY: So going as far back as Frederick Douglass
Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’
Minnesota Reformer via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoEditor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford University in April 1967. We hear...
Queen City: The lost Black community swallowed up by The Pentagon
BBC News· 22 hours agoA thriving all-Black community flourished just outside Washington DC until its nearly 1,000...
Red states strike deals to show controversial conservative videos in schools
New Hampshire Union Leader· 4 days agoA privately funded effort to use disputed videos to teach conservative values in public schools is...
Harrisburg’s William Howard Day made mark as pioneering civil rights leader | Column
The Patriot-News· 5 days agoWilliam Howard Day was a significant 19th-century Black civil rights figure who made his mark in...
