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2.4 Million People Are Victims Of Human Trafficking

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 04.04.2012

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UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. crime-fighting office said Tuesday that 2.4 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking at any one tim...

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PHOTOS: 'Born In Slavery' Project Reveals Last Faces Of American Slavery

The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Library of Congress, African Slaves, American Slaves, Slaves, American Slavery, The Library of Congress, Slavery, Black Voices News

"Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is -- 'tis he who has endured," said one of the former slaves interviewed for t...

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Former 'Slaves' Build Brazil World Cup Stadium

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Video, Slaves, World Cup, Brazil, Soccer, Reuters, Brazilian, Soccer Stadium, Stadium, Latino Voices News

* 25 workers at stadium previously worked in slave labor * Government program trains "slaves," finds them real jobs * Un...

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'Slave Game' Outrages Parents At Elementary School

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.27.2012

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Parents of students at Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Ga., are outraged after a 3rd-grader told her mother about a "slave game" students had...

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More Black Men Are In Prison Today Than Were Slaves In 1850, Law Professor Says

Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Black Men in Prisons, Video, Black Men, Disenfranchised, 1850, Slaves, Prison, Institutional Racism, Black Men Disenfranchisement, More Black Men in Prison Than Slaves in 1850, Criminal Justice, Prisons, War on Drugs, Crime News

More black men are behind bars or under the watch of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved in 1850, according to the author of a book a...

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Is Clarence Thomas At The Center Of An Ethics Violation?

ARTINFO | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, New York Times, Frederick Douglass, Clarence-Thomas-Harlan-Crow, Clarence Thomas, Ethics, Ethics Investigation, Pin Point, Historic Preservation, Georgia, Harlan Crow, Raymond J. McKoski, Slaves, Supreme Court Justice, Supreme Court, Ethics Violation, Arts News

A quaint historical museum in Pin Point, Georgia, that is set to open this fall has become the target of an exhaustive ethics examination by the New Y...

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The Discord and Discourse in Historical Plays

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, Freud's Last Session Play, Slaves, Civil War, Andre Braugher, Play, Slavery, Theater, Seder, Sigmund Freud, c.s. Lewis, Passover, New York News

Freud's Last Session and The Whipping Man depict conversations and situations that compel the audience to envision and reconsider historical events in another, more engaging light.

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Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery

Eric Kasum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Peace, Native Americans, Peace, History, Slaves, American History, Slavery, The New World, Knights of Columbus, Holidays, American Indians, 1492, Christopher Columbus, Eric Kasum, Crimes Against Humanity, Roman Catholic Church, Columbus Day, Peacedog, Politics News

Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?

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Why the Media Wants Americans to Donate to Haiti But Not Pakistan

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

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The American public does not know that Haiti is a nation that has long been been a thorn in the side of the American government while Pakistan is a nation which the U.S. already has great influence on.

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Wikileaks Founding Fathers: Caveat Lector

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slaves, Sarah Palin, Assange, Founding Fathers, Christianity, Thomas Jefferson, Wikileaks, Tea Party, Benjamin Franklin, Republicans, Prohibition, Comedy News

The GOP and Tea Party better look out. Wikileaks has gained access to classified documents written by the nation's founding fathers.

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So You're Planning a Confederate History Month Party!

Andy McDonald | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last thing you want to do in celebration of Confederate History Month is omit or overlook any critical information regarding life in the south during the Confederacy!

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State Department's Report On Modern Day Slavery Omits Cases Of Foreign Diplomats In Washington

Time | E. Benjamin Skinner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Washington on Monday morning, June 14, Hillary Clinton unveiled the State Department's 10th annual report on modern-day slavery, which evaluates th...

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The Preservation Elite Celebrate a Job Well Done in New Orleans at Saks on Fifth Avenue in NYC!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restoration, New Orleans, Clay Bryant, Stacy Head, Jules Jackson, St Charles Street, Le Bernardin, Bryce Reveley, President Obama, Anne Redd, Gail Wall, Historic Preservation, Betsy Nulty, Meredith Wagner, Jane Scott Hodges, Slaves, Rosemarie Fowler, Hurricane Katrina, Daniela Rivero, Jennifer DeWinter, Shoes, Saks Fifth Avenue, Helen Marie Rodgers, Irvin Mayfield, Carolyn Elder, Holly Snodgrass, Jennifer Mestayer, Patty Gay, Amanda Brown, E. S. Camp, Martha Chandler Dolly, Laura Weil, Dottie Charbonnet, Edith Wharton, Brandi Couvillion, Susan Johnson, Debora Shriver, Lafitte Public Housing Project, Gail Bertuzzi, Jerry Shriver, Haiti, Nico Kean, Audrey Medill, Geoffrey Snodgrass, New Orleans? Preservation Resource Center, Sarah Vaughn, Susan-Wormser, New York News

As the band played "Do You Know What it Means, to Miss New Orleans?" thinking back to an earlier natural disaster, disproportionately impacting blacks, unavoidably reminded one of Haiti.

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Arrests After 107 Slaves Found In Mexico City

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory makin...

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Curse Words from an Old Manse

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon, Slaves, Free Speech, Stupid, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Henry Louis Gates, Cursing, Benjamin Franklin, Barack Obama, Politics News

I strongly disagree with anyone caring about this "stupidly" business. Politics is serious, and sometimes people get fired up. Diplomatic speaking is for diplomats.

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21st Century Slaves: Cuba and Obama's Hope

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Cuban-Dissidents, Slaves, Barack Obama, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Raul Castro Cuban President, World News

Today, the interests of international business, the U.S. government, and the Cuban populace coalesce around a single ideal: labor reform in Cuba.

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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Tibet: Polar Perspectives. Can Both Sides Be Heard?

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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The truth about Tibet is perhaps more nuanced than it has been presented by either side of the highly polarized debate.

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Watching the Inauguration from a Former Slave Market

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 05.25.2011

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This afternoon, the descendants of slaves bore witness to an event their forebears could not have imagined: the inauguration of an African American as President of the United States.

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