Frederick Douglass
After the weather took a turn during their display of white patriot pride, MAGA had to take refuge inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th year, the expected patriotism of a sanitized history exposes the deep chasm Black Americans must navigate every Fourth of July.
While some see July 4th as a symbol of national pride and possibility, others see it as a celebration of a freedom that has never fully included them.
Douglass' iconic 1852 speech on July 4th remains a powerful lens on America's unfinished promise of freedom and equality for Black Americans.
This is yet another attempt by Florida "education" officials to make U.S. history more palatable to white people by lying about it.
From Trump's blatant racism to the erasure of a beloved Black figure skater, this Black History Month has been a doozy.
With this administration, anything is possible. Black History Month could be on the chopping block, and Juneteenth may be, too
A crowd revisited the names, stories, and sacrifices of more than 200,000 soldiers who fought for a nation that did not fight for them.
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?" Frederick Douglass asked white America in 1852. The answer remains stubbornly elusive 172 years later.
Independence Day, in the midst of attacks on democracy, highlights the hypocrisy of America.
Black children are not killed because police fail to recognize them as children. They are killed because they are Black.
From airports in 1775 to another mention of Frederick Douglass, Trump shows he has no intellectual capacity to be president.
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