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June 23, 2010
State Department acknowledges that people continue to be bought and sold as property, even today.
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by Erin E. Evans onJune 17, 2010
Gen Y seems less than enthused about the day that slaves in Texas found out they were free. How will Black Independence Day fare in 2050?
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June 15, 2010
Slavery hasn’t taken the World Cup from me; indeed, I still get to revel in the bulk of the happiness the tournament provides. But what I don’t get to do is celebrate it the way many of my friends celebrate it.
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May 6, 2010
Ransby feels Dr. Gates' position "clouds rather than clarifies" American history.
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by Stanley Crouch onApril 26, 2010
The Harvard professor's hard facts on slavery are a blow to the "victim studies" hustle.
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by Jack White onApril 26, 2010
Even if everyone accepts responsibility for the slave trade, don't expect to see any money.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onApril 23, 2010
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August 26, 2009
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds provide sweet and hilarious revenge to Jews during the Holocaust. When will somebody greenlight a flick where slaves beat master's ol' butt?
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by Rachel L. Swarns onAugust 17, 2009
Paul Jennings was a slave in James Madison's White House, and became the first person to put his recollections of it into a memoir.
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July 11, 2009
Barack Obama rounded out his trip abroad with a stop in Accra, Ghana, where he spoke to the nation's parliament and paid a visit to a maternal health clinic in Accra, before finishing up with a moving visit to Ghana's Cape Coast Castle—the point of no return for thousands upon thousands of black Africans sold into slavery...
