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 ...
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 ...