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Los Angeles -
Quentin Tarantino has begun shooting his new movie "Django Unchained" in California. The movie is set to be released on Christmas Day, 2012.
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One day in 1863, American blacks woke up to hear that a white Republican President had given them their freedom. Now, their descendants have woken up to hear a black Democratic President has taken theirs away. And everybody else's.
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Norcross -
Several parents of elementary school children in Gwinnet County, Georgia were shocked and outraged when their children brought home from school math homework assignment that had word problems referring to slavery and beating of slaves.
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Many people label relationships and situations they dislike as "slavery." Communists call salaried workers "wage slaves"
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New York -
The United Nations (UN) announced on Friday the launching of an international competition for the design and structure for a memorial honoring victims of slavery worldwide.
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Leighton Buzzard -
Last month, a research scientist was convicted of keeping a slave. In London! Since then, another and even more disturbing case has appeared in the land that gave the world ‘Magna Carta’.
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The old tools we used to improve the economy do not seem to work these days. Globalization is a prime suspect in America's current predicament.
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Slavery in Britain was abolished in 1807, in the USA in 1863, and in the whole world by 1981. Sadly, not everybody heard.
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As President Salva Kiir Mayardit gave the first inaugural address for his new nation South Sudan he said that his nation will forgive those who enslaved his people but they will not forget those actions.
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Former New Mexico governor and Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson spoke out against the pledge Republican presidential contenders were expected to sign by the Conservative group Family Leader, calling it 'offensive.'
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Parents outraged after homework assignment refers to slavery and beatings.
The legacy of slavery in the poorest region of the US
 A federal judge for the first time in U.S. history heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings.
A total of 2,270 workers in Brazil were rescued from "slave-like" conditions in 2011, the government says.
 A new video game challenges players to follow a Nova Scotian hero on the road from slavery to freedom.
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James Hopkinson's Plantation slaves planting sweet potatoes (c. 1862/63).
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