Read more slavery stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/12848/slavery.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 9:22:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71702/columnist-backtracks-slightly-on-limbaugh-quote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagColumnist Bryan Burwell acknowledges that he is among those who ran with an old quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh on the "merits" of slavery without verifying it. Limbaugh insists he never said it, and Burwell is fine taking him at his word on that. It doesn't change his view that...http://www.newser.com/story/71702/columnist-backtracks-slightly-on-limbaugh-quote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 12:08:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichelle Obama can trace her lineage to a female slave sold as a young girl from a South Carolina plantation and sent to Georgia. As a teenager, Melvinia Shields became impregnated by a white man, possibly her master, and those two are the great-great-great grandparents of Michelle. A genealogist working...http://www.newser.com/story/71185/first-ladys-roots-linked-to-slave-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama is taking so much heat from opponents wrongly convinced that he's keen on redistributing white America's wealth to African-Americans that he might as well go ahead and do it, Naomi Klein writes in the Guardian . Obama's administration has been pursuing "race-neutral" policies that do nothing to close the...http://www.newser.com/story/69225/slavery-reparations-should-be-obamas-next-stimulus.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 9:26:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64155/obama-slavery-monument-place-of-profound-sadness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama toured the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana today, a shipping-off point for African slaves to America, Reuters reports. He saw the monument as a reminder. “As painful as it is,” the president said, “I think that it helps to teach all of us that we have to do...http://www.newser.com/story/64155/obama-slavery-monument-place-of-profound-sadness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Jul 2009 14:04:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62245/senate-apologizes-for-slavery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Senate today apologized for slavery and civil rights abuses against African-Americans, CNN reports. The unanimous gesture—it comes on the eve of Juneteenth, which marks the end of the Civil War—carries a disclaimer that it's not meant to authorize reparations, notes the Chicago Tribune . The House will vote...http://www.newser.com/story/62245/senate-apologizes-for-slavery.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Jun 2009 13:45:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56701/slumdog-stars-mom-stepmom-lock-horns.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe mother and stepmother of Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali slapped and tore at each other in a Mumbai slum today, the Daily Mail reports. The mother started the catfight after Ali's dad, Rafiq Qureshi, was arrested for allegedly trying to sell the 9-year-old for £200,000. “You treacherous b*tch,...http://www.newser.com/story/56701/slumdog-stars-mom-stepmom-lock-horns.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 17:39:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56633/time-to-stop-fighting-the-civil-war-in-history-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAsk a Northerner what caused the Civil War and he'll say slavery, while Southerners are likely to say states’ rights, or economic differences. That self-justifying shorthand is reflected in what's taught in schools, too. But with the election of Barack Obama, historians say new ground has been broken in the...http://www.newser.com/story/56633/time-to-stop-fighting-the-civil-war-in-history-class.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 11:56:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54441/scholar-who-lived-black-history-dead-at-94.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInfluential historian John Hope Franklin died yesterday at 94. The author of a seminal book on race, Franklin was born and raised in an all-black community in Oklahoma, marched in Selma, and assisted on a Brown v. Board of Education brief. "He managed to embody this history and yet recount...http://www.newser.com/story/54441/scholar-who-lived-black-history-dead-at-94.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 26 Mar 2009 8:26:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52225/a-little-slavery-is-not-ok-gov-crist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA dozen years of prosecutions against Florida slave-holders still hasn't convinced Gov. Charlie Crist to back the cause—but he better, Barry Estabrook writes in Gourmet. Advocacy groups, who have tried for 2 years to meet with him, now threaten to re-enact slavery abuses in the state’s capital. Such pressure...http://www.newser.com/story/52225/a-little-slavery-is-not-ok-gov-crist.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 02 Mar 2009 17:54:23 CST