A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

Bearing an all-star cast of Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Regina King, Tommy Lister Jr., John Witherspoon, Bernie Mac and more, the film debuted in 1995 and went on to make over $27 million at the ...