American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture For Kenneth Morris, sitting in a darkened theatre among hundreds of people, it was a moment of a communion with a man he never met but whose light he carries wherever he goes. Morris is the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, orator and polymath. On Thursda…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM on July 30, 2022