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An exhibition at Cooper Hewitt stages visualizations by W. E. B. Du Bois, including data portraits, alongside Art Nouveau artifacts.

The 54-year-old Hollywood actor plays an escaped slave in the film who has had his back brutally whipped.

Shepard offers an important perspective on slavery in a book for children

Didn't want black people marrying their kids and most of them didn't want a lot of them around, and douglas exploited that, and the charleston debate here, said did you know, he says to the people, that lincoln's friend fred douglas who spoke on our campus twice and there's a statue of him now, rode through this town last week in a carriage driven by a white man. mark: this is the great frederick douglas, an escaped slave, brilliant man. >> brilliant. mark: who helped lead the abolition movement. >> that's right, and the lincoln-douglas debates, only lincoln rises to great heights. douglas's h...

Didn't want black people marrying their kids and most of them didn't want a lot of them around, and douglas exploited that, and the charleston debate here, said did you know, he says to the people, that lincoln's friend fred douglas who spoke on our campus twice and there's a statue of him now, rode through this town last week in a carriage driven by a white man. mark: this is the great frederick douglas, an escaped slave, brilliant man. >> brilliant. mark: who helped lead the abolition movement. >> that's right, and the lincoln-douglas debates, only lincoln rises to great heights. douglas's h...