Slavery

Never mind that he and Benjamin Banneker were, at one point, engaged in a debate by letter about whether or not Negroes were intellectually equal to white men.

From CNN: Betty Kilby was gripped with apprehension. Descendants of the white family that enslaved her kin were coming to dinner.

OXFORD, Ohio — Miami University’s president has pledged a review of policies and punishments for campus fraternities and sororities after a second sorority was linked to destructive behavior at its spring formal, including vomiting and smoking inside a museum.

note: i'm not saying they're always TRUE.

From the AFP: PARIS — Historians and anti-racism campaigners are to urge the countries that oversaw and profited from the Atlantic slave trade to recognise it as a crime against humanity, opening the way for reparations.

as a rule, i'm always a little leery of Blacks that are endorsed by whites.

From AOL Black Voices: Last week, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., made the controversial claim that black Africans were as much to blame for slavery as white Europeans and Americans. According to Gates the implication of Africans makes the messy issue of reparations for the descendants of slaves even messier. But is he missing […]

This op-ed was published today in the New York Times and was written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., aka Skip Gates, of Beer Summit fame. Skip Gates’ opinion on this issue is not necessarily representative of our point of view here at NewsOne but we feel it is our editorial responsibility to publish this article […]