via BlackAmericaWeb/Jamai Harris: Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, orator and author who escaped slavery in the 19th century, was also a newspaper editor. And now, the newspapers Douglass edited between 1847 and 1874 are available for free online through the Library of Congress. On Saturday, the library tweeted, “NEW ONLINE: We have just made available newspapers edited by […]
via BlackAmericaWeb: Spike Lee has directed some of out favorite movies like Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing and many more. The filmmaker is now gearing up to direct a movie about Frederick Douglass. The film is an adaptation from the play Frederick Douglass Now written by and starring Roger Guenveur Smith (Queen Sugar). Douglass was a Maryland native and a former slave as […]
WGN America has released a first look image of John Legend as renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the upcoming second season of the hit series “Underground.” Legend, who is an executive producer alongside the series creators, Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, guest stars in the highly anticipated season 2, which returns Wednesday, March 8, 2017 […]
Frederick Douglass elected President of Freedman Bank and Trust (1857). The Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, popularly known as the Freedman’s Savings Bank, was a financial organization created by the U.S. government to encourage and guide the economic development of the newly-emancipated African-American communities in the post-Civil War period. Although functioning only between 1865 […]
