To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

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

Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” in an act of resistance to Independence Day, Black Americans are still grappling with how to celebrate ...

America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

As we’ve seen time again during America’s 250-year history, the most effective antidote to unhinged speech is more speech — ...

With many UK bird species in rapid decline, here are some simple and natural ways to care for wildlife in your garden and beyond ...

There are lives, and then there are legacies. For Dr Bolanle Olawale Babalakin, SAN, OFR, who turns 65 on July 1, 2025, his ...

There has been widespread condemnation of the comments made by the group Bob Vylan whose frontman led chants of 'Free ...

The BBC today admitted it ' should have pulled' the live stream of the performance that contained ' utterly unacceptable' and ...

This column is drawn from Walden Bello’s speech at the “Afternoon with Risa and Walden,” the launch of the book Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love by ...