Frederick Douglass

The Massachusetts State Senate has added a bust of abolitionist activist Frederick Douglass to its chamber on Beacon Hill. It’s the Senate’s first state-commissioned bust of an African American.

The first statue in Europe of a Black statesman was unveiled in Belfast in July to honor the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, who visited the city many times while he was in Ireland during 1845.

Despite America’s great success in business, poverty is still a discredit to the nation. Conservative pundits make the rate of poverty acceptable by creating the fiction that poverty is a Black affliction.