Staff / TruthdigNov 4, 2015
The women's rights movement in Great Britain had a martial arts-trained group that few knew about; a writer ponders how to get people to read about climate change when it's so depressing; and a look into how abolitionist Frederick Douglass became the most photographed man in America. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanJul 2, 2015
Independence Day is a fitting time to reflect on the role that grass-roots organizing for social change has played in building this nation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 4, 2014
This Fourth of July, "Democracy Now!" remembers Frederick Douglass' defiant Independence Day address, read by James Earl Jones during a performance of Howard Zinn’s "Voices of a People’s History of the United States," and the life and legacy of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, who died this year at the age of 94. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Amy Goodman / TruthdigJul 4, 2013
More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
BLANKJan 23, 2009
Two recent books show how a man of reason and conservative temperament and a man of passion and radical disposition joined together, even before either knew it, to end slavery. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
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