HBCU football returns to New York as Central State faces Lane College in Rochester’s Frederick Douglass Classic, part of a college-access Weekend of Hope.

Plans were unveiled for the Frederick Douglass Historically Black Colleges and Universities Football Classic. This year’s ...

The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...

There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens’ all-star roots music night Wednesday at the ...

Maintaining North Star Elementary School is going to cost a bit more than first thought. About three times more, according to ...

The acclaimed singer-songwriter traveled through the past and present of American roots music with her own band, the reunited ...

Abby Hammond, a University of Kentucky signee, has been named Kentucky Miss Softball. Two from Assumption softball earned ...

Four Lexington players make KSCA All-State teams with Bryan Station’s Karsyn Rockvoan also a first-team honoree.

The transportation network for escaped slaves during the mid-1800s passed right through Delaware, a 95-mile trail spanning the first state. Delaware was the last slave state along the trail for many, ...

Six Lexington high school softball players, including Lexington Catholic’s Kentucky signee Abby Hammond, will play in the ...

Representative Byron Donalds' (R-FL) resolution to rename the House of Representatives Press Gallery after abolitionist ...

Douglass launched The North Star newspaper in 1847. The abolitionist newspaper pulsed with demands not just against slavery but for women’s rights, schools open to all and justice without exception.