1. Where Is Frederick Douglass When You Need Him?
(Newsletter)

Dear [NAME] Where Is Frederick Douglass When You Need Him? Editorial By William Cook    Wednesday, 21 October 2009 Or The Return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright One hundred and forty seven

2. Where Is Frederick Douglass When You Need Him?
(Editor/Editorial)

... earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.” Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July,” 1852 One hundred an...

3. Dr. King Spanks Obama: Part 2
(Opinions/Society)

...he Negro, was denied everything but a legal status he could not use, could not consolidate, could not even defend. As Frederick Douglass came to say, "Emancipation granted the Negro freedom to hu...

4. A Letter to Michelle Obama
(Opinions/Features)

...he overseer’s whip, mercilessly slashing his victim’s flesh with the steel barbs that he swings with all his might as Frederick Douglass describes so vividly in his narrative. But now the victims are ...

5. Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery
(Opinions/Politic)

Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on Maryland's Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notoriou

6. A People's History of the United States
(Opinions/Features)

...e cast included Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover and James Earl Jones. Performances include Danny Glover as Frederick Douglass, Marisa Tomei as Cindy Sheehan, Floyd Red Crow Westerman as Tec...

7. The Outer Limits of Empire
(Opinions/Interview)

...e antiwar movement of the Vietnam years, there wasn't one person, but when I think back to the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass was a special figure in that way. When he came north, out of sl...