frederick douglass

3 min read 2021-12-29 21:45:41

White Lady Doing Racism Can't Help But Wonder: Where Have All The Black Friends Gone?

Patricia Morgan wants you to know that she had a Black friend. Morgan, who is a Rhode Island state representative and an actual person, tweeted this

4 min read 2021-12-20 03:52:51

This is the second year in which I taught a class about power that is supposed to introduce students not just to key theorists on power in

1 min read 2021-11-24 08:41:25

Frederick Douglass? Richard Theodore Greener? Samuel Byron Brittan? Rufus K. Noyes? James Clear? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: You must be

1 min read 2021-10-21 13:00:26

Christianity and Empire Slaveholder Christianity Thursday, October 21, 2021 Fr. Richard offers a critique of how Christianity aligned with empire and

$Destrucción creativa: Repensar el fracaso después del Estado$ 1 min read 2021-09-20 14:54:23

De Joseph Parampathu. Título original: Creative Destruction: Rethinking Failure after the State, publicado el 15 de julio 2021. Traducido al

1 min read 2021-09-15 06:51:48

Below you will find the con argument in our debate on Roe v. Wade and Abortion. The pro argument, written by James A. Montanye, can be found

1 min read 2021-08-30 05:18:01

Lollapalooza 2021 had some 385,000 attendees (without significant Covid-19 outbreak, fortunately) but featured little of host Chicago’s indigenous

4 min read 2021-04-30 15:00:30

Africans are cognitively deficient, morally inferior, and primitive and therefore lack the qualities necessary to be functional citizens in a modern

1 min read 2021-04-27 03:20:56

In 1863, abolitionist, orator, and writer Frederick Douglass traveled down from Rochester, New York during the Civil War determined to get a meeting

6 min read 2021-04-17 06:00:43

ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog This 1886 advertisement promoted a washing machine as a

3 min read 2021-04-16 09:55:00

NORTH LAWNDALE — A West Side mini-golf attraction that has been defunct for years is set to reopen this summer, thanks to a teen-led initiative to

4 min read 2021-03-29 03:00:33

Dane Key is an elite high school football player. There’s no question about that statement. However, there’s much more to the Frederick Douglass

4 min read 2021-03-23 22:00:02

KSR is covering the Kentucky high school basketball postseason, from the region tournaments all the way to the Sweet 16 at Rupp Arena (March 31 –

4 min read 2021-03-02 08:15:17

History books are filled with photos of people we know primarily from their life stories or own writings. To picture them in real life, we must rely

4 min read 2021-02-26 19:35:00

New from UNC Press Blog Closing out our blog posts for Black History Month 2021, the following excerpt by P. Gabrielle Foreman is taken from The