Etiqueta: slavery
New documents reveal abolitionist’s court case to free her child from slavery
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The New York State Archives has uncovered nearly 200-year-old court records detailing abolitionist Sojourner Truth's battle for her enslaved son's freedom. El mes pasado, archivists found the 1828 documents detailing...
Biden nominee equated ‘proof of citizenship’ with ‘voter suppression,’ likened felon voting ban to slavery
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"When you add laws that prohibit people with a criminal conviction from voting, it’s practically the same system as during slavery – Black people who have lost their freedom and cannot vote," attorney Nancy Gbana Abu...
'La vista’ presenta choque sobre Kaepernick y su comparación de esclavitud en la NFL: "Nadie obliga a estos muchachos a jugar’
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Durante una discusión sobre el nuevo especial de Netflix de Kaepernick titulado "Colin en blanco y negro," los dos discutieron sobre la precisión de la comparación y finalmente chocaron con el razonamiento de que él ya no jugaba i ...
Former NFL player tears into Colin Kaepernick for comparing NFL draft to slavery: ‘Evil, anti-American spirit’
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COLIN KAEPERNICK LIKENS NFL PROCESS TO SLAVERY IN NETFLIX SPECIAL JACK BREWER: This new Colin Kaepernick doctrine that’s penetrating the minds and hearts of so many of our underserved Black kids across America is the...
Jim Kaat makes slavery reference when trying to ‘compliment’ White Sox slugger Yoán Moncada
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White Sox infielder Yoán Moncada, a Cuban native, was at the plate when former MLB manager Buck Showalter recalled knowing Moncada had the potential to be a superstar when he was scouting him as the chief of the Balt...
Maxine Waters: Treatment of Haitian migrants worse than slavery
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The California Democrat spoke at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, held in response to photos and claims that surfaced this week showing Border Patrol agents attempting to coral some of the migra...
Monument honoring abolition of slavery unveiled in Richmond two weeks after Robert E. Lee statue was removed
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A monument honoring the abolition of slavery was dedicated on Wednesday in Richmond, Virginia, just two miles from where a hulking statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once prominently stood. People in the audie...
Presuntos sobrevivientes de tráfico sexual dicen que Nevada violó la prohibición de la esclavitud de la Constitución: demanda judicial
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Anunciado el lunes, la demanda nombra específicamente al fiscal general del estado y al gobernador. Steve Sisolak, junto con varios condados y entidades privadas. El Centro Nacional de Explotación Sexual (NCOSE), que yo ....
Boston mayor uses slavery, Trump to shoot down questions about vaccine passports
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"We know that those types of things are difficult to enforce when it comes to vaccines," Janey, un demócrata, said Tuesday when she was asked if she’s considering mandating vaccine passports. "There’s a long history in...
Deroy Murdock: Biden opposes the slavery of 1619-1865. So why does he enable the slavery of 2021?
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On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that cited "the Civil War and the abolition of slavery." A presidential proclamation in March decried "the damaging legacy of slavery," tiempo ...
Shackled skeleton tells grim story of slavery in Roman Britain
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London Archeologists working in central England have found a shackled skeleton which, ellos dicen, provides physical evidence that slavery was practiced in Roman Britain. The adult male was buried in a ditch with iron f...
Alyssa Milano, Chelsea Handler call on Joe Biden to take action on federal slavery reparations
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The duo appeared in a five-minute video produced by NowThis in which the two actresses, along with several politicians and activists, lay out the case for reparations in America and call on the current administration...
A Harvard professor argued that Korean women forced into sex slavery in WWII did so voluntarily. Now he’s facing a backlash
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A Harvard professor has sparked international backlash after publishing an academic article arguing that Korean comfort women -- sent against their will to imperial Japan to have sex with soldiers -- were not actual...
Es hora de dejar de llamar a la esclavitud el "pecado original de Estados Unidos"’
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James Goodman, profesor distinguido de historia en la Universidad de Rutgers, Newark, es el autor de "Historias de Scottsboro," "Apagón" y "Pero, ¿dónde está el cordero??" Las opiniones expresadas aquí son suyas. Leer más opini ...
Wisconsin teachers put on administrative leave after racially insensitive lesson on slavery
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Teachers at a Wisconsin middle school have been placed on administrative leave after an unapproved lesson about slavery upset families. Sixth graders at Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, receiv...
The amendment that abolished slavery had a lasting flaw
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Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas a...