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Topic: Frederick Douglass

Sunny Hostin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sunny Hostin writes from her own story

Alli Joseph
Frederick Douglass (Courtesy of HBO)

HBO's "Frederick Douglass" speaks to us

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Frederick Douglass and the resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Frederick Douglass (Wikicommons)

Remembering Babylon in America

David W. Stowe - The Conversation
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Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (AP/Salon)

Frederick Douglass: Hope on the Fourth

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump; Muhammad Ali (Getty/Alex Wong/AP Photo)

Trump's racist Muhammad Ali troll

Amanda Marcotte
Frederick Douglass (Wikicommons)

"Fox & Friends" quote Frederick Douglass

Rachel Leah
(Getty/Mark Wilson/naphtalina)

Trump's biggest history fails

Charlie May
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(Getty/DNY59/WikiMedia)

White folks: Read Douglass

Chauncey DeVega

5 life-changing summer reads

D. Watkins
Aldis Hodge in "Underground" (WGN)

Underground: Resistance TV

Melanie McFarland

Underground: Past is Present

Melanie McFarland
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A photo of the author in East Baltimore.

What "a real one" really is

D. Watkins
Donald Trump; Frederick Douglass (Getty/Tom Pennington/Wikicommons)

Trump's "amazing" ignorance

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Carlo Allegri)

I was wrong

Nick Bromell
Alize LeGrange, 18, wears a T-shirt she made in response to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's comments about "thugs" trying to tear down the city as she waits for a bus at the Mondawmin Metro Station (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Baltimore's new plantations

Corey Robin
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Allan Pinkerton, Abraham Lincoln, center, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand in Antietam, Md., after the Battle of Antietam on Oct. 3, 1862. (AP/Library Of Congress/Alexander Gardner)

Lincoln's Civil War brilliance

James M. McPherson
Frederick Douglass (Wikimedia)

Frederick Douglass in Ireland

Joan Walsh
(PBS)

Jay Driskell - Jacobin
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Scalia doesn't get democracy

Nicholas Buccola
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Frederick Douglass, Glenn Beck (New York Historical Society/AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Tea Party flunks history

Sean Coons
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