How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous and powerful speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852.

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in February 1818. This means that Douglass was only thirty-four years old ...

Frederick Douglass’ Inde pendence Day keynote address on July 5, 1852, cited the founders’ great ideals – and hypocrisy.

The summer air in Rochester, New York, hung thick with heat and celebration. It was July 5, 1852, a day after cannons had ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

“Professor,” a diligent young woman from Queens who described herself as Latina and applied a no-nonsense activist lens and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Several dozen gathered in Oakwood Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, the one-year anniversary of the cemetery’s ...