IBATS (Inspired By A True Story) movie Sarah’s Oil ( now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is of a far more tolerable brand of ...

Willa Robinson has loved to read since she was a child. It’s a passion passed down from her father, who “read everything” and tended to fall asleep on Sunday afternoons with the newspaper over his ...

“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” reads the epigraph to Sara Pennypacker’s superb novel “The Lions’ Run.” It’s an apt description for how the smallest, most fragile things suffer ...

It’s not a love song — it’s a nightmare. Pop star Sara Bareilles was left horrified when she discovered a pile of dead animal bones hidden inside her quiet country home. The 46-year-old “Waitress” ...

UB’s Rare Books Collection has acquired a first edition of Frederick Douglass’ “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave,” one of the most significant works in American literary ...

Sara Wheeler’s immersive work proves the role of travel writer is still essential. Her Arctic dispatches explore what it means to survive, thrive and stay alive. In this age of head-mounted HD cameras ...

After Frederick Douglass' death in 1895, the Black community in Knoxville, Tennessee, put together a "fitting memorial." Memorial services in African American communities serve as more than eulogies; ...

WASHINGTON (WCIV) — The U.S. House of Representatives’ newly dedicated Frederick Douglass Press Gallery is drawing praise from Rep. Nancy Mace, who called the honor a fitting tribute to one of America ...

Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a cord and unveiled a plaque hanging above a door at the end of a cramped hallway on the Capitol’s third floor. For the first time, a press gallery on Capitol Hill was ...

A special visitor is in Philadelphia this Black History Month. Kevin Douglass Green, the great, great grandson of 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, is spending the week visiting ...