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.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
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.
Alex Higgins | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
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.
Max Keiser | Posted 09.01.2009 | Business
Debt slavery, i.e., penury, i.e., POS 'Plain Old Slavery' is making a comeback in America thanks to Wall St. banks.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living
All of these books should provide some correctives to the deep misunderstanding -- or desperate ignorance -- of this extremely important chapter in American History.
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....
Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York
I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
In his catalog of Washington's public virtues and civility, David Brooks neglected to mention that George Washington owned, bought and sold his fellow human beings.
Jim Wallis | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Let's ensure that history does not remember us just as "consumers" of the earth and its resources, but as people who take seriously the God-given mandate to "serve and preserve" the earth.
Carol M. Swain | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics
Although some may argue that an apology for slavery would open the door to racial reparations, legal precedent demonstrates that an apology for slavery would not trigger legal liability.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
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.
Dallas News | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home
Willie Rainwater will be busy Saturday commemorating his family's fight for equality here, as well as the broader civil rights struggle of the nation....
Russell Simmons | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
The effects of slavery on our communities have been devastating. The devastation does not stop because of the apology; however these are words that we all needed to hear.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate has unanimously passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and racial segregation and sent the measure to the House. I...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.
GlobalPost | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
Yasmina was 12 years old when an aunt and uncle brought her to France from Mali to be a live-in nanny to their children. Once she was settled in a ...
Anthony Anderson | Posted 06.04.2009 | Style
And who wants to say no to highly-mineralized, organic, local produce? At basically no cost after time? Permaculture is a HUGE part of the answer.
Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.22.2009 | Style
Still reigning, still smiling, after 56 years! The Glorious Queen Elizabeth Rose Who has worked harder or better, and so long, at a tiresomely t...
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
It is the responsibility of the United States to investigate allegations of torture. The use of torture should be purged from our system, much like we eradicated slavery.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.07.2009 | Style
At 115 years of age, Mrs. Gertrude Baines, an African-American, had once more earned the proud and breath-stopping distinction of being the world's oldest person.
Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
Dr. John Hope Franklin, the wildly accomplished historian who documented Blacks' place in the great American story, firmly believed in reparations.
Paul K. Chappell | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
Patriotism requires us to question our government and think critically so that America can become a more humane, just, and peaceful country for all of its citizens and a role model for the rest of the world.
E. Benjamin Skinner | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
Lou de Baca is that rare breed of political appointee whose only qualification is that he is enormously qualified to do the job.
AP | Chris Blank | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee likened abortion to slavery in a Monday speech dur...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
How come the majority of people vocal about violence against Rihanna have been white women? How come black women as have not come together as a collective to say enough is enough?
Geralyn Dreyfous | Posted 11.10.2009 | World