even the famed U.S. abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was among those who regularly gave lectures to packed society meetings. That same year also saw Toronto host the North American Convention of Coloured People, at which delegates endorsed a resolution …
Read the entire story here:Black History Month: Heroes of the Underground Railroad – Toronto Star
Black History Month: Heroes of the Underground Railroad – Toronto Star
February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“You Don’t Own Frederick Douglass” – Huffington Post
January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In front of the society building are statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In an earlier post, I suggested that Lincoln and Douglass, if they were alive today, would probably be picketing the exhibit because of its historical inaccuracies.
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Lincoln and Douglass Would Be Angry – Huffington Post
January 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Life sized bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass stand at the entrances to the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) greeting visitors. The Society placed the statutes there to make a statement about the focus of many of its exhibits on …
Read the entire story here:Lincoln and Douglass Would Be Angry – Huffington Post
Schizoid Sexual Society: Focused on the Petty Sex Scandals, Ignoring the Ones That Really Matter – AlterNet
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Their goal, they say, is “forcing sex slavery out of the shadows and into the spotlight.” But as Gawker’s Adrien Chen has wondered, “Maybe the only thing Ashton is more passionate about than fighting child sexual abuse is college football?”
Read the entire story here:Schizoid Sexual Society: Focused on the Petty Sex Scandals, Ignoring the Ones That Really Matter – AlterNet
Thomas Lucente: Personal monuments wrong in an egalitarian society – LimaOhio.com
August 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
However, if we wanted to honor an individual, then why not Frederick Douglass? Douglass remains the most important figure in black civil rights history and there is no grand monument to him on the mall. It is a grave injustice to memorialize a man such as …
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in an egalitarian society – LimaOhio.com
US envoy’s fast-food diplomacy – Global Nation
August 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
He also commended Aquino for waging war against heinous crimes and human trafficking, which is “nothing short of modern-day slavery.” “I am delighted to tell you, there has been progress. We support the strong partnership between the civil society …
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Even Comedy Must Be Protested When It Comes To Planned Parenthood – RH Reality Check
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Via The Detroit Free Press : Starting about 4 p.m., anti-abortion groups, led by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and the Frederick Douglass Foundation, set up shop on Saginaw and Pike streets with signs and graphic images depicting abortion. About an hour …
Read the entire story here:Even Comedy Must Be Protested When It Comes To Planned Parenthood – RH Reality Check
Ohio lawmakers, others focus on sex trafficking victims – Middletown Journal
July 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Local members of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society and the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church plan a conference in Centerville March 2012 to raise awareness for human trafficking and domestic violence. But some local …
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Overnight News Digest: 235 – DAILY KOS
July 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. At an Independence Day meeting sponsored by the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in 1852, the former slave Frederick Douglass delivered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest orations.
Read the entire story here:Overnight News Digest: 235 – DAILY KOS
