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Photos: Facebook|Wikimedia Commons As the nation begins to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence, a grassroots civil rights organization will have a public reading of a speech by…
By Jamial Black\Black Voice News Photos: YouTube Screenshots\YouTube Screenshots On July 5, 1852, at Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass delivered a powerful address organized by…
By The Collective PAC Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons As we take today to celebrate the spirit of freedom that defines the Fourth of July with family and friends,…
Bowman: "Making Juneteenth a national holiday would be just one step, albeit a significant one, in a larger effort to root out the racism that’s been part of…
Mary McLeod was the 15th child to slaves on a farm near Mayesville, South Carolina. She would become one of America’s leading advocates for education, civil, and voting…
Frederick Douglass: "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,…
Adam Theo--Flickr Creative Commons Frederick Douglass wanted to give the world his opinion of the 4th of July celebration and what it means to the oppressed. Douglass asked:…
Lynne Stewart with husband Ralph Poynter upon her 2013 release Frederick Douglass said: "This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and…
Trump shown with Dr. Ben Carson President Donald Trump's remarks today at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Thank you very much, everybody. It's a…
