The City of New Bedford is celebrating its connection to famed author and abolitionist Frederick Douglass this weekend.
The New Bedford Historical Society and the Nathan and Polly Johnson House on Seventh Street in New Bedford are being recognized Sunday afternoon by the Toni Morrison Society and the Bench In The Road Project, which honors locations across the nation that are important in black hi
In honor of Frederick Douglass' 200th birthday, city officials joined the New Bedford Historical Society and students from Carney Academy to celebrate his life.
Our Ken Pittman doesn't believe one more brick, intersection or bridge in New Bedford should be named for anyone else, until Douglass is rightfully and appropriately honored.
The Mass. Senate has passed Sen. Mark Montigny’s legislation creating an annual day to honor Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass Day will be celebrated every February 14th, beginning on the 200th anniversary of his birth this coming Wednesday.
On Thursday, the public is invited to discuss design plans for a new park planned at the site of two former historic homes in New Bedford that will recognize and celebrate some of the city's most forward-thinking residents.
The park, which will be called Abolition Row Park, will celebrate the 19th-century abolitionists that lived in 19 houses in the four blocks around the park's location at the co