While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

What started out as Negro History Week in 1926 has evolved into a month-long celebration. Now, Black History Month is ...

Steph Solis/Axios Bostonians have a chance to see Frederick Douglass up close and ask him questions for the first time in more than a century. It's not the real-life abolitionist back from the dead, ...

1865: Abolitionist John S. Rock became the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1943: During World War II, one of America’s most ...

Quantum Theatre’s new production will shine a light on a historical rebel you won’t find in textbooks. Benjamin Lay was an ...

The fight for justice does not end with Kiah Duggins.Friends, family, and supporters are coming together to carry on the ...

For Gina Dent, Ph.D., adopting an abolition mindset shouldn’t just be relegated to the criminal justice system. Abolition means reimagining society as a whole, especially in how we think about our ...

John Hunn was an abolitionist in the 1800s convicted for federal crimes after he helped enslaved people reach freedom.

People shouldn’t have to go to prison to get their basic needs met. Abolitionist Feminism invites us to consider the world we want, and how to organise to build it. Seeking a world beyond prisons, ...

Early settlers arrived in 1846 with James and Lucinda Stone of Winooski, Vermont, taking up residence, followed by Survarnard Jewett, Fred Joerns and John Hobbs, and later in 1851 abolitionist Capt.