Monroe County Executive Adam Bello said the millions of travelers who pass through the airport each year will be able to pause and reflect on Douglass' life and work.

Dauphin County jail administrators had to return tablets to men in three segregated units, one week after they confiscated the electronic devices. The administration quietly took the tablets on June ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...

A community engagement session took place in Rochester Monday for a proposed historic byway. The “Harriet Tubman Underground ...

No other changes are expected soon to the fleet of John Lewis-class ships, most of which are named after civil rights figures ...

From the pavilion, participants took a short walk to Edwin Coppock’s gravesite. Coppock, an abolitionist and participant in John Brown’s anti-slavery raid of 1859, was born in Columbiana County near ...

The property has an in-ground pool suitable for a European villa, a cabana with a full kitchen and a bathroom, there is a lighted tennis court, a greenhouse-yoga studio, four car garage, and a ...

The webinar was one of three which, along with a traveling exhibit and a live guide, has been paid for by a grant from ...

Emma Fenstermaker is a freelance researcher with New America Chicago, specializing in community recruitment and engagement, analysis, and writing. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Creative Writing ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history. The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

The hamlet of Petersboro in Madison County, located between Morrisville and Oneida, is a small town with a lot of history when it comes to the upcoming Juneteenth celebration, which is now a ...