The Latest Breaking News from Frederick Douglass

California's Rationalist-Linked Death Cult

Plus: Air traffic control failures that led to a plane crash, "why shit not working" in New York City, and more...

Reason · Jan 31, 2025

“Righteous proof that rebel music and irony are alive and well”: Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name amasses one billion Spotify streams

Tom Morello thanks “those who love it, those who hate it, and those that have enjoyed it without understanding it” in a celebratory statement

Metal Hammer · Jan 13, 2025

Photographer explores African American history and oppression by shooting cultural objects held in the United States' original 13 colonies

Wendel White is fascinated by "the residual power of the past to inhabit material remains"

Digital Camera World · Jan 8, 2025

Joy and pain, struggle and achievement – who best tells the story of Black lives?

We asked a group of Black Britons, some famous, some not: who do you most revere as a chronicler of the Black journey, in Britain and abroad?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2024

Frederick Douglass Praises the "Courage" Of Justice John Marshall Harlan

“In these easy going days [Harlan] should find himself possessed of the courage to resist the temptation to go with the multitude”

Reason · Sep 11, 2024

The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world

The academic’s page-turning volume of essays – a study of intellectuals who sought to improve the politics and societies of their day – makes you feel a little more learned than you did before

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2024

Writings on the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution

A collection of links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant today.

Reason · Jul 4, 2024

What Frederick Douglass learned from an Irish antislavery activist: ‘Agitate, agitate, agitate’

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2024

Five things to know about Memorial Day and its profound original purpose: ‘It isn’t just the barbecue’

Someone has always lamented the holiday’s drift from its original meaning

The Independent UK · May 23, 2024

Free Church of Scotland under fire for failure to apologise over slavery money

Church statement expressing ‘grief’ that members took money from plantation owners in 1844 condemned as ‘shameful’

The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2024