Visit places outside of the National Mall to watch fireworks and parades, check out local concerts or browse events ...

Rev. Horace Sheffield discussed the Fourth of July and its critics, the Walk to Freedom, the Black church, and the Black ...

Events celebrating America's 250th birthday mean some changes for fireworks viewing on the Mall and the route of the ...

The 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States brings a bounty of books assessing the period’s ideals and figures ...

He launched Faith250, an interfaith movement of churches, synagogues and mosques across the country that would celebrate ...

The history of African American doctors in history is a story of brilliance forged against impossible odds.

The much-anticipated July 4 weekend is here. Events across Gloucester and Mathews will join the nation in celebrating its 250th birthday. Here is a lineup of what has been planned. The musical play ...

Frederick Douglass readings on Cape Cod are part of a larger movement across the state that highlights Douglass' legacy and ...

As we observe the U.S.’s 250 th birthday, I am reminded of the words of James Baldwin, who wrote that, in the true pursuit of ...

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 ...

Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most ...

Jia Lynn Yang is a Times senior writer. She previously served as the national editor. In the Edward P. Jones historical novel, “The Known World,” there is a harrowing scene in which a freed slave ...