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What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoBorn into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of the leading abolitionists in America....
Rep. Ivey introduces bill to posthumously award Congressional Gold Medal to Frederick Douglass
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 4 months ago“There’s been high honors for Confederate generals and slave owners…but not so many honors awarded...
First portrait of Black Americans arrives at Mechanics Hall to be installed in March
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMechanics Hall received a special delivery Monday when the first paining of its Portraits Project...
Painting history: Mechanics Hall readies new portraits of four 19th century Black leaders
Worcester Telegram & Gazette via Yahoo News· 12 months agoWhen respected cultural advocate Gloria D. Hall was honored with an arts and humanities award in a...
Titans of freedom: PBS documentaries look at Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass
Albuquerque Journal, N.M. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 4—The best thing about Nicole London's job is she has the opportunity to learn something new each day. The director, producer and co-writer of "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" had the ...
'King of the Underground Railroad' Jermaine Wesley Loguen born in Maury Co.
Columbia Daily Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe history of Maury County, Tennessee amazes me, in that it often reaches far beyond the bounds of...
EDITORIAL: Heritage Consider, contemplate Black History Month
The Free Press, Mankato, Minn. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 3—This history of American Blacks has been one of the most misunderstood, under-reported and under-covered significant pieces of American history. So we can make a small reparation by embracing ...
Mexican restaurant with a focus on dippable birria tacos opening near Rochester airport
Democrat and Chronicle via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhat began as three friends' entrepreneurial pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a...
Modern Far-Right Terrorism Repeats Reconstruction-Era Themes
Time via Yahoo News· 1 month agoStreet memorials of flowers, candles, and messages surrounded the Tops supermarket where a racist...
Celebrate the power of education, preserve academic freedom, and reject threats to both
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn January 16, at the 48th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Springfield, I...
