The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series 3: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852 (The Frederick Douglass Papers Series)
TheWashCycle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not sure what happened here, but it looks like a truck ran into the barrier. Luckily no one was standing there when it happened. I don't know when this will be cleaned up/repaired. It may have already happened. I don't...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Pulling out a quote from Frederick Douglass' canon would probably solve a lot of the problems that trying to introduce something as complex as slavery in Korean history can generate, but the argument gains a little more verve when it's attached to what has the potential to become next year's "best damn show on television." And once you realize KBS' upcoming action sageuk 추노...
HipHopDX.com (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
... Reading/Signing 11/10/2009 · · 112 Eisenhower Parkway · 7 p.m. Reading/Signing 11/11/2009 · · 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd · 6 p.m. Reading/Signing 11/12/2009 · · 395 Route 3 East · 7:30 p.m. Reading/SigningThe book publishers have said of The Gospel of Hip-Hop: "Set in the format of a self-help holy book, this 800-plus-page opus is a spiritual manual for citizens of Hip Hop Kulture...
Levellers (Free subscription) | yesterday
... such as William Lloyd Garrison (a white newspaper editor raised as a New England Baptist) and Frederick Douglass (a former slave, editor of The North Star , and lay-preacher for the African Methodist Episcopal Church) and Sojourner Truth (former slave and traveling preacher) were pacifists who hoped that slavery could be abolished without war–though some later, reluctantly endorsed...
Eating In Translation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
A contraction, perhaps, of "old fishing hole"? Could be. Though the name isn't as blunt as "Willie Burgers," this site's previous, affiliated operation, O'fishole's menu is pretty much what you'd expect. Two salmon cakes (with a side of garlic bowtie pasta; $6.50) had crisp shells and moist, onion-laced filling. O'fishole Seafood 274 West 145th St. (near Frederick Douglass Blvd.) 212-234-2601...
Eating In Translation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... age, while the exhaust fan, unsurprisingly, always looked old. Outdoor Seafood Soul Food Menu 2750 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at West 146th St.)
Eating In Translation (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Nowadays you read much more about omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil as well as certain plant and nut oils. There's no sign that the company behind the cure-all knew the first thing about omega-3, though do note that that ad was painted as a triptych. Surviving painted ad for Omega Oil Seen from Frederick Douglass Blvd. at 147th St.
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... by now -- can enter Jack Ryan's world in Annapolis. 8. Abolitionist and Eastern Shore native Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated African-American heroes in America. His best known work is his autobiography, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave." It became an immediate best-seller, launching Douglass into a fame not known...
Curbed (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
That red-facaded building above is The Balton , a mixed-income rental building coming to West 127th Street between St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in 2011. Harlem Bespoke has the skinny : there will be a total of 226 apartments available in the Balton and West 128th Street sibling building Douglass Park , which is starting construction next year. Both buildings...
Racked (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... suits from Tahari, Ann Klein, and August Silk from K&G on E. 42nd Street or 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd . The pants are often lined, as are their fabulous sundresses. The last purchase I made came to $289.00 which included two pairs of lined pants by Kasper and Rafaella as well as two sweaters by Chaus! The tailor on site is cheaper than the cleaners so you can pick up...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Gary L. Lemons (English, Univ. of South Florida) has published his new book, Womanist Forefathers: Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois, with SUNY Press. In Womanist Forefathers, Professor Lemons traces the origins of contemporary African-American male feminists to the “pro womanist” stances of Douglass and Du Bois. Lemons is also the author of Black Male Outsider:...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The activist wing of the Democratic Party, Americans United for Change, is going up with a new ad aimed at lawmakers and opinion shapers, reminding them that many “controversial” proposals in the past worked out just fine, like Social Security. It quotes Frederick Douglass declaiming that things can get a little scary when you’re trying to achieve the things you want,...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will. Those who want freedom without agitation are like those who want the ocean without its mighty roar. -- Frederick Douglass
XXL Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Preparation through education is the key that will unlock boundless opportunity for them, yet they live at a time and in places where education has become a broken relic, a ruin of black people’s past glory. Public schools are named for relics, great African-American educators and emancipators like Frederick Douglass, Benjamin E. Mays, Martin Luther King Jr. and others.The buildings named...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The cleats were sorted, then lined up on one side of the team room at Frederick Douglass High School and Academy in Detroit.When the doors opened before football practice that day this fall, coach Andre Harlan knew what happened next would be a blessing for most.“Come over here,” Harlan told his players, “and find your size.”In a school system hard hit by economic woes, where Harlan had...
