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The College of Arts and Humanities’ Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities, launched in 2024, is dedicated to engaging diverse communities—both at the university and well beyond—around issues of social justice and equity and creating leaders with values rooted in the humanities. The center’s activities, which include varied learning and funding opportunities, public events and more, seek to embody the core values of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery in Maryland and went on to become a prominent writer, orator, publisher, civil rights leader and government official.
“There is no other Marylander that exemplifies leadership through the humanities—the power of reading, writing, thinking, communicating, ethics, language and culture—more than Douglass.”
ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan