Slavery

Jan Mickelson, the conservative talk show host, announced a plan to force undocumented immigrants to become "property of the state."

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Prince has a message for all aspiring artists — don’t sign with a major label. The legendary artist spoke with a small number of reporters at Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis Saturday evening, and he compared record label contracts to slavery, NPR reports. The comment elicited shock from many in the media, but Prince says the correlation isn’t as […]

In an ongoing effort to make changes within our criminal justice system, the Obama administration has launched a new initiative to help those who are incarcerated turn their lives around. On Friday, the Department of Education announced that they will introduce the Second Chance Pell Pilot, which will allow inmates to receive Pell Grants so that they […]

Fifteen years before Amistad, there was the Antelope: a slave ship with 275 captives whose fates were argued before the U.S. Supreme Court not just once, but three times. Jonathan Bryant, author of Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to discuss the story […]

Actor Laurence Fishburne will play Alex Haley in A&E Networks’ reboot of Haley’s classic African-American novel Roots, History Channel’s executive vice president and general manager Dirk Hoogstra announced last week. The remake of Haley’s 1976 novel centered around Kunta Kinte, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and miniseries that followed, will be simulcast on three of […]

PBS has halted the third season production of Finding Your Roots after an investigation proved the omission of Ben Affleck’s slave-owning ancestor violated ethical guidelines. The network also postponed the order of a fourth season until they are confident in the show’s editorial standards, Mashable reports. The third season of the theology-themed show, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., was […]

When we talk about the United States becoming a global economic power, many discount the role slavery and free labor played in bolstering American capitalism. Author Edward E. Baptist‘s new book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, explains how the American economic system benefited from slavery and used the horrific institution to position itself for […]

In 1794, a Portuguese slave ship, dubbed Sao Jose-Paquete de Africa, sank near Capetown while en route from Mozambique to Brazil. Now over 200 years later, archeologists and divers believe they have discovered the remains from the ship. There were more than 500 slaves on board when the ship sank. The crew and more than […]

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Incredible X-ray shows eight-year-old boy hidden inside womans suitcase as she tried to smuggle him into Spain … pic.twitter.com/pwhomFK7sb — DailyNew5 (@DailyNew5) May 8, 2015 A 19-year-old woman was caught attempting to smuggle an 8-year-old boy out of West Africa in a suitcase, the NY Daily News reports. The boy, who told authorities his name was Abou, […]

Ben Affleck has issued an apology for hiding information about his ancestors on the PBS show Finding Your Roots. The actor took to his Facebook page to discuss why he decided to ask show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. and producers to take out the information that one of his distant relatives owned slaves. Gates spoke out about the episode […]