Tag: slavery

Southborough, Massachusetts teacher placed on leave for holding mock slave auction, using racial slur. School principal Kathleen Valenti, also suspended for 10 days for failing to censure teacher following second episode at elementary school.  Teaching America's history of slavery by...

Zach Cotter Target security guard punches Karen Ivery black woman in the face after she demands $1000 in reparations worth of groceries. Officer claimed self defense as customer became belligerent and followed him to enclosure.  A Target security guard in...

Bobby Paul Edwards, Conway, South Carolina restaurant manager at J&J Cafeteria ordered to pay enslaved black man, John Christopher Smith, $546,000 during 5 years of effective captivity at restaurant.  Disposable and discarded until one day, thirty four years after starting...

Naperville Central High School student faces hate crime charges after posing 'slave for sale' on Craigslist of fellow teen black student.  A 14-year-old Illinois boy is facing hate crime charges for allegedly posting a photo of a black classmate on...

US slavery history: How the exploitation of African Americans came to make America as the country continues to struggle with black identity.  Working for several hours without food, forced to sleep in the cold and flogged to death are all...

This past Thursday saw a wonderful turnout celebrating awareness for a very special cause very dear to our hearts. Inspired by the collective vision of Janera Soerel of Janera.com, photographer Jennifer Macfarlane and the compassionate humanist Benjamin Skinner we...

In most parts of the world a woman is free. Free to express herself, be aware of herself, free to become who she needs to be. That all changes when you venture to the third world when all a...