In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

He also wrote three autobiographies, including "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave", published in 1845, which became a best seller. In the 19th century, Douglass was ...

orator and aesthetic philosopher Frederick Douglass. A spoken monologue carries across the 28-minute narrative, with passages primarily excerpted by Julien from three of Douglass’ most famous ...

It’s an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the American social ... reading about the horrors of slavery as he transcribed pages from a narrative written in the ...

Despite significant progress over the years, the fight against racism and racial discrimination remains as urgent as ever.

I’m currently leading my freshmen students through a weeks-long seminar on “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” a searingly brutal account of the slavery Douglass endured and ...

An unlikely friendship with the man who wrongly prosecuted Amanda Knox for murder brought her some closure — and the ...

Full disclosure: your humble correspondent has never seen Hamilton. So I can’t make any sort of informed judgment about ...

Fennell is a kind of Ishmael, observing the slow tragic fall of his Ahab, Conway. Aboard the Georges Lecointe there is an ...