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On King Speech Anniversary, Obama Nomination Takes Its Place in Historytruthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Aug 28, 2008 Forty-five years to the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois will formally accept his party's nomination for president. Here are some key landmarks … Also tagged: racism, barack obama, african american, martin luther king jr, i have a dream speech, election2008, equal rights, civil rights act, denver08 |
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Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisonstruthout.org » Truthout - All Articles - Aug 28, 2008 On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They … Also tagged: angola, agriculture, incarceration, louisiana, prisons, african americans, cotton, 13th amendment, the south, plantations, prison labor |
bnp.org.uk » The British National Party News - Aug 27, 2008
The British National Party is to launch a ‘white history’ project as a counter to the announcement that the state is to make the learning of ‘black history’ compulsory at all UK schools. The white history project will …
Also tagged: black history, news archive, anti white, white history
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph Travel - Aug 27, 2008
Behind the elegant facades of Savannah and Charleston lies the ugliness of slavery. Nigel Richardson hears a neglected history.
Also tagged: us, america, south, 2008, georgia, south carolina, presidential election, savannah, obama, charleston, barack
telegraph.co.uk » Telegraph UK News - Aug 26, 2008
Learning about black history is to be compulsory in secondary schools for the first time following a curriculum review.
Also tagged: history, curriculum, schools, black history, william wilberforce, british empire, ethnic minorities
nytimes.com » NYT > Opinion - Aug 25, 2008
Race can be a means for Barack Obama to talk about reconciliation — of America with its past, its ideals and the world.
Also tagged: race, obama barack, presidential election of 2008
theoffside.com » The Offside - Aug 21, 2008
A couple weeks ago Andrei Arshavin’s agent went on a bit of a tirade, joining the masses suffering from skewed perception and labeled his client a “slave”. We all know Andrei, just like Cristiano Ronaldo, is not a …
Also tagged: world football, arsenal, russia, tottenham, zenit st petersburg, andrei arshavin
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Underground Railroad Quilts - A Great Fascinationquiltingandpatchwork.com » Quilting and Patchwork - Aug 15, 2008 QuiltingAndPatchwork.com The premise that quilts contained symbols and secret messages for slaves escaping along the Underground Railroad of the pre-Civil War and Civil War era is met with differing opinions. However … Also tagged: civil war, patchwork, quilters, quilting, mary emma allen, quilting patchwork history, underground railroad, mary emma, quilting and patchwork, mary allen, underground railroad quilts, secret messages in quilts |
covenantzone.blogspot.com » Covenant Zone - Aug 12, 2008
The scene: Mauritania. The story: a brother searches for his sister. She is a slave, twice made a mother by having been raped by her master. She lives in a country where slavery has been declared illegal, over and over …
Also tagged: mauritania, military coup in mauritania
covenantzone.blogspot.com » Covenant Zone - Aug 12, 2008
Translating the first of the three-part French documentary on slavery in Mauritania, and the efforts of one brother to free his sister from her forty year life as a chattel slave. Part 1: Chasseurs d'esclaves_1/3 …
Also tagged: mauritania, military coup in mauritania