Frederick Douglass

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

The declaration's words and sentiments have inspired nations and movements around the world.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.

Following in the footsteps of 20th century African Americans, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.

To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.

The NFL's response to player protests reflects decades of League and U.S. attempts to portray false images of post-racial harmony.

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

On Haiti, Donald Trump sounds a lot like Thomas Jefferson.