Tag: Slavery

Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the president of the prominent Jesuit university in Washington announced Thursday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Georgetown University to favor descendants of slaves in admission process

Kelly Cohen · September 1, 2016 4:13 pm

Kaine made his remarks as part of a larger address focused on criminal justice reform and "social justice." (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Kaine draws cheers with slavery apology, ‘black lives matter’ promise

Becket Adams · August 4, 2016 4:22 pm

Some of the changes include an end to militarized police presence at protests and the retroactive decriminalization and immediate release of people convicted of drug offenses, sex work-related offenses and youth offenses. (Bryan Bennett/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group via AP)

Black Lives Matter groups list their demands

Maria Biery · August 1, 2016 4:28 pm

Media wrongly accuse Bill O’Reilly of having ‘defended’ slavery

Eddie Scarry · July 27, 2016 12:37 pm

"And even Francis Scott Key in his writing of The Star-Spangled Banner … He celebrates slavery by saying 'No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave," said Rev. Kevin Cosby. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Pastor at Muhammad Ali funeral: Star-Spangled Banner ‘celebrates slavery’

Mariana Barillas · June 10, 2016 9:41 pm

Slaves to History at Georgetown

Alice B. Lloyd · May 3, 2016 2:00 pm

The U.N. estimates that there are 27 to 30 million men, women and children enslaved today, more than at any time in human history. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

Ending the abomination of modern slavery

Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie · April 30, 2016 4:02 am

Turner is famous for his dramatic oil paintings and scenic watercolor paintings of landscapes. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Irony: Britain to put slave profiteer on 20 pound note

Curt Mills · April 22, 2016 6:39 pm

Obama: ‘Push back against bigotry’ on anti-slavery amendment anniversary

Nicole Duran · December 9, 2015 6:22 pm

CNN’s Mike Rowe dismantles link between ‘hard workers’ and slavery

Becket Adams · November 2, 2015 11:52 pm

Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a rookie politician who is very intelligent and very new to politics, says some crazy things. His latest allegedly crazy thing, though, is not crazy at all.Â (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Beltway Confidential

Ben Carson is right to compare abortion to slavery

Timothy P. Carney · October 26, 2015 3:10 pm

A group of rastafarians demonstrate at Norman Manley airport in Kingston, Jamaica, Monday, Feb.18, 2002, demanding compensation to those who suffered during slavery and repatriation to Africa. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)

The absurdity of demanding reparations for slavery

Dan Hannan · October 5, 2015 4:01 am