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New Jersey could become the first Northern state to apologize for slavery under a measure due for a legislative committee hearing this week.
A planned memorial marking the spot where George Washington lived as president with several slaves will be modified to allow visitors to see archaeological remnants of the home, project officials said.
Two Mauritanians have been arrested for allegedly forcing two children to work as slaves — the first suspects to face prosecution for a practice that many in this African country consider part of the culture, authorities said Wednesday.
It was panhandling, it was performance art — and it was a political statement about the legacy of slavery and reparations for black people.
An emotional Mayor Ken Livingstone apologized Thursday for his city's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, saying London was still tainted by it.
Gov. Mike Beebe questions moves to have Arkansas join other states in apologizing for its role in slavery.
A county commissioner from northern Minnesota has been critized by community members for saying he would go as far as to support slavery if his constituents wanted him to.
Several Georgia lawmakers have opposed efforts to issue an official state apology for slavery, but they could be swayed knowing their predecessors authorized the state purchase of slaves, a legislator said.
Maryland lawmakers approved an apology Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."
Beatles lovers who seek out Penny Lane imagine it as that magical place "in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies." But it has a sinister undertone that still reverberates.
Meeting on the grounds of the former Confederate Capitol, the Virginia General Assembly voted unanimously Saturday to express "profound regret" for the state's role in slavery.
A state legislator said black people "should get over" slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize "for killing Christ," drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.
Bill Cosby called Friday on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. Cosby, who already has committed $1 million to the project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200 million price tag.
African and black American leaders meeting this week debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent — securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves.
Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum.
France honored victims of the slave trade Wednesday with a national day of concerts, school lessons, Louvre exhibits and ceremonies in a trading port that grew rich from New World slave plantations.
A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed.
A significant milestone in American history has gone strangely unnoticed: the 200th anniversary of Jan. 1, 1808, when the importation of slaves into the United States was prohibited.
America's favorite neocon commentator takes a crack at America's favorite quasi-Libertarian presidential candidate. Hey, might as well - everyone else is ripping Paul, as they always do when anyone gets too big for his britches.
Recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups, the charity Save the Children says. The situation for children in the east of the country is "catastrophic", says a report for the aid organisation.
An 11-year-old child bride sits next to her 40-year-old fiance. For UNICEF, this was the Photo of the Year. Dutch writer Leon de Winter laments the perversity of this wedding picture and the frightening relativism of the West..
The Capitol's mammoth new visitors' center is a work in progress bedeviled by cost overruns and mounting delay. The $621 million project is not expected to be ready for tourists until next fall.
A federal judge in Central Islip ordered Varsha Sabhnani to jail Thursday, days after a jury found her guilty of enslaving and torturing two domestic workers at her Muttontown home.
Two school teachers have been sentenced to death in China for forcing more than 20 young girls - including some of their own pupils - into prostitution.
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) -- A jury on Monday convicted a millionaire couple of enslaving two Indonesian women they brought to their mansion to work as housekeepers.
After meeting John Brown, the abolitionist newspaperman William Lloyd Garrison wrote, "For Brown, milquetoast abolitionism had failed; the way to destroy slavery was with principled violence -- holy war."
These are just three slaves among the 12.4 million Africans who were captured by raiders and kidnappers and transported across the Atlantic in slave ships between the late 15th and the late 19th centuries.
Slavery may be outlawed, but as a group of workers in Florida show, some battles still need fighting.
No, this is not a historical article. It is thestory of a sickening practice that is still happening today. Today's Sudan is not just about naming Teddy Bears Mohammed... or massacres of blacks in Darfur; Excerpt:
Slavery on Long Island. This case gets more sickening as time goes on. Personally, I have no doubt the plaintiffs have done everything they have been accused of, and more.
Santa's way to fat. Little kids everywhere are getting indoctrinated that fat is phat.
Sudanese Human rights activist and former slave Simon Deng blasted Archbishop Desmond Tutu for his outrageous remarks at an anti-Israeli conference in Boston.
In his new book, God Is Not Great, subtitled How Religion Poisons Everything, anti-theist Christopher Hitchens states, "religion makes people do wicked things they wouldn't ordinarily do . . .
(Frontpage Interview's guest today is Bill Warner, the director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) and spokesman for politicalislam.com.)
In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice.
What is child labour: Any child under the age specified by law worldwide works full time, mentally or physically to earn for own survival or adding to family income, that interrupts child's social development and education is called "child labour".
This amazing man mastered several languages, helped lead his church and began his own business. He affronted the masters of Charleston, won the lottery and gained his freedom, and he owns a place in our hearts and history books.
Throughout the years of slavery, thousands managed to escape and set up liberated communities known as quilombos.
In colonial America, slaves from west Africa made many a plantation owner rich by growing a particular high-quality variety of rice.
"The Slavers is out"!!! On Wednesday 14th November, Host Coach Steve Toth of Real Coaching Radio Network interviewed Mr Richard Brinton about his book "The Slavers".
Like the lead character in his film Holly, writer/producer Guy Jacobson stumbled unaware onto the issue of child sexual exploitation.
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