As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, here’s an ugly open secret to consider about one of its original states: More than 20,000 New Yorkers owned Black people at the height of slavery in ...
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...
On Christmas Eve in 2012, Amika Mota and the firefighters of Madera County Station Five responded to a house fire call. When she realized the homeowners had children, Mota and her crew began pulling ...
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