Slavery

The Real Reason Obama Isn't Making Much Progress

Johann Hari | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Johann Hari

The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.

China To Obama: Dalai Lama Was A Slave Master In Tibet

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home


BEIJING — The conviction was clear but the message befuddling: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman was equating serfdom in Tibet to slavery in th...

The House's Historic Health Care Reform Vote and the Lens of History

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Marcella Mroczkowski

Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.

Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


Abigail Pesta

You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.

Creating Gender Equality In The 21st Century

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living


Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

Nichlas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's recent book "Half the Sky" is a call of awakening for all men and women to take action and right the wrongs existing in the world today because of gender inequality.

Enteric Disease impact on Global Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Degradation

Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


Lisa Conte

One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.

'Half The Sky' With Nicholas Kristof: A Morally Persuasive Call to Action

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living


Dr. Alex Benzer

In their lucid and levelheaded way, Kristof and WuDunn build a powerful moral case for fostering economic progress in the developing world by unleashing the potential of women.

Set Children Free From Human Trafficking

Rani Hong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact


Rani Hong

Child slaves are often the unseen hands holding up the economy of the nation, hidden in their places of bondage from the sight of the people buying the work of their labor.

Of Human Bondage: Slavery Bigger Than Ever in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The modern day slave trade nearly equals the illicit drug and arms sale trade. Captives work in plants, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants and in prostitution and sex rings.

John Brown's Body Lies A-Moldering in Upstate New York

Alfred Gingold | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York


Alfred Gingold

150 years after his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown looms ever larger in the national psyche, either a great martyr to a just and necessary cause, or our first domestic terrorist.

Prisoner's Dilemma: Should a Chicago Alderman Relish His Opposition to Felony Franks?

Marilia Duffles | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago


Marilia Duffles

Leave it to a Wall Street Journal story this week about a Chicago alderman's opposition to Jimmy Andrews' Felony Franks -- a hot dog joint that hires ...

Live-Streaming The Freedom Awards: Celebrating Anti-Slavery Heroes

Peggy Callahan | Posted 10.13.2009 | Impact


Peggy Callahan

I dreamed up the Freedom Awards because in Free the Slaves we insist that the people who are closest to slavery should be the leaders and spokespersons of the anti-slavery movement. Who better to tell the world that this is real slavery?

Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green


Robin Chase

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

The Hanged Census Worker: Why Appalachia Hates Feds

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Gail McGowan Mellor

The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.

Child Slavery in Haiti: Odette's Story

The Morningside Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


The Morningside Post

More than 300,000 children are currently enslaved as restaveks in Haiti. They make up 3 percent of Haiti's population. More often than not they are emotionally and physically abused.

A Case for Republican Secession (From Itself)

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics


Michael B. Laskoff

Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.

Twenty-Seven Million Slaves

Russell Simmons | Posted 11.17.2009 | World


Russell Simmons

An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.

Fighting Human Trafficking, One House Party at A Time

Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World


Geralyn Dreyfous

In a summer focused on the health care, and the deaths of renowned politicians and celebrities, there was all too little attention on a government report released in June 2009 on global human trafficking.

Sex and Voting

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Kenneth C. Davis

On this date in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified by the necessary two-thirds of the states and women were granted the right to vote. Somewhere Abigail Adams was smiling.

Decline Can Make Britain a Better Country

Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World


Alex Higgins

There is a distinct lack of enthusiasm for attempting to govern other parts of the world by force, let alone envy of the global superpower.

Slavery Legal in America Again (VIDEO)

Max Keiser | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business


Max Keiser

Debt slavery, i.e., penury, i.e., POS 'Plain Old Slavery' is making a comeback in America thanks to Wall St. banks.

Slavery, Abolition, Rebellion: A Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living


Kenneth C. Davis

All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.

North Korea Labor Camp Atrocities Revealed In New Report

Washington Post | Posted 08.20.2009 | World


Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year....

NYC Slavery Walking Tour

Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York


Sheryl McCarthy

I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.