by lindaoppenheim | Apr 13, 2019 | Events
Rutgers University-Newark graduate student, Noelle Lorraine Williams, designed a sculpture to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s visit to Newark on April 17, 1849 to deliver an address at the former Plane Street Colored Church as a fundraiser for his North Star...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 8, 2018 | Article
That Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, both abolitionist leaders, were born a few miles apart on the Maryland Eastern Shore is not surprising. The Washington Post article examines the elements that made this geographic region a wellspring of freedom for enslaved...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 3, 2016 | Opinion
David Brooks comments on Frederick Douglass’s strategic use of photographic portraiture to breakthrough common stereotypes. “Douglass was redrawing people’s unconscious mental maps. He was erasing old associations about blackness and replacing them with...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 18, 2015 | Events
The new North Star movie stars former Philadelphia Eagle Jeremiah Trotter as Benjamin “Big Ben” Jones. It will be screened in Newtown, Pennsylvania now through September 24th. If there are some New Jersey dates, we will post them here, but Newtown...
