I usually call it the South Capitol Street Bridge. It was built in 1950 and that’s how it was known until 1965 when it was officially named the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in honor of the ...

As the nation and world commemorate the 200th birthday anniversary of Frederick Douglass, descendants of the famed abolitionist, statesman, orator and ambassador are preserving his historic legacy ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had traveled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time, Douglass ...