Smith Washington D.C. is rich with Black history, and filled with landmarks that honor the various cultural contributions ...

President Donald Trump's effort to create the National Garden of American Heroes received a major boost when lawmakers awarded it $40 million from the "Big Beautiful Bill." Trump announced earlier ...

In February, Trump announced he had ordered the creation of a new national park to display statues of "the greatest Americans who ever lived." Trump signed a similar executive order in 2020, which ...

(Mass Appeal) - Join the Greater Holyoke Council For Human Understanding to celebrate the legacy of Frederick Douglass with a community reading of one of his most famous speeches. Here is Gina ...

Frederick Douglass High opened a new weight room with help from Kyle Arrington. His foundation helped fund the upgrade to support student athletes. A ribbon-cutting kicked off the final week of camp.

But I also had a secret mission: to see if I could get a closer look at the damage being done to the museums in our nation’s capital. I’d already tried to get some DC-based curators I know to speak ...

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that once was a stable.

Oops! The planned National Garden of American Heroes accidentally serves to highlight the importance of welcoming ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ideals — liberty, equality, democracy — and its complicity in ...

HOWARD ZINN: Frederick Douglass, once a slave, became a brilliant and powerful leader of the anti-slavery movement. In 1852, he was asked to speak in celebration of the Fourth of July.

While 14-year-old Jeremy Herred fights for his life, Ald. Monique Scott questioned Tuesday why the park district hired lifeguard Charles Leto, who has since "resigned in lieu of termination ...

A space at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport is now dedicated to celebrating the airport's namesake.