Jackie Sumell created Freedom to Grow to promote abolitionist art and healing justice rooted in the legacy of the Angola 3, ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

Ahead of the July Fourth holiday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we speak with the acclaimed ...

In 1808, decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, Black Bostonians initiated an annual celebration of their own freedom granted by Massachusetts years earlier. It wasn’t long after that one of ...

A double whammy hit young Edwin Coppoc of Winona in early 1842. His father died and because his mother was unable to care for all her six children, 6-year-old Edwin was sent to live with John Butler ...

The July meeting of the Cleveland County Republican Party grew heated. The topic was abortion. Kari Rayl, a nutritionist and health practitioner who served as chair of Precinct 345, had returned to ...

Ohio homeowners are furious about property taxes, but a grassroots to abolish them is running out of road fast. Hosts on the Today Ohio podcast suggested Friday that even if the effort fails, the ...

AMHERST — Sojourner Truth was one of the most famous abolitionists of 19th century U.S. history. But Tom Goldscheider, of the David Ruggles Center in Florence, has heard of many longtime local ...

Every February, Black History Month invites us not only to celebrate achievement, but to correct the record. Some stories are not merely incomplete; they are mis-framed in ways that shape how power, ...

Who were those who were helping freedom seekers travel through Wisconsin on the Underground Railroad? What were their motivations and why they were willing to risk violating federal law to do it? (low ...