We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

ArtsConnect hosts a community reading of Frederick Douglass' "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro" speech.

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

Frederick Douglass asked a burning question in front of hundreds of abolitionists in Rochester, New York: "What to the Slave ...

On Saturday, many people gathered outside Historic Northampton to take turns reading a passage of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ ...

Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, so he never knew the exact date of his birth, only that it occurred sometime in ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, marked by the Continental Congress’s ...

Frederick Douglass died on Feb. 20, 1895 — around 30 years after seeing his dream of all slaves being freed. On that day, he had finished a speech at the National Council of Women meeting in ...

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on Saturday, July 5, starting ...