Frederick Douglass

We’ll go On the Record with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson to ask what moved him as he researched the lives of the Maryland icons of freedom Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and how he sees their legacies.

WYPR and The Baltimore Banner are collaborating for coverage of the inauguration of Governor Wes Moore and Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller.

To make sense of history we often turn to books to help illustrate life in the past. But today we talk with someone who brings history alive by taking it…

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Until he escaped Maryland--and slavery--at age 20, where did he…

There’s been a lot of attention focused on Baltimore’s youth in the year since Freddie Gray died. And much of that spotlight has been on Frederick…

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a gifted author and orator, and a champion of emancipation and civil rights. But here’s something you may not…