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Slavery in Canada
On this date in 1734, 272 years ago, Portuguese-born slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of arson for a fire that consumed much of Montreal, was hanged in New France (Québec). Her...
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Juneteenth for White Folks
Having grown up as a somewhat sheltered WASP, Pajamadeen had never heard of Juneteenth until recently, when she learned it’s an official holiday in Texas which is also celebrated in 13 other states....
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The Gena Six, Ahmadinejad and Civil Liberties
On this first full day of autumn, with the leaves beginning to change colors and students back in school, we await Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University in New York...
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Day of the Dead and People We Won’t Miss
Mexico’s “Day of the Dead” (Día de Los Muertos) holiday, celebrated on November 1 and November 2, is an interesting, if little known (to most WASPs), fall holiday. When Spanish Conquistadors landed in...
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Entertainment News: Rapper Pimp C Dies
Chad Butler, better known as rapper Pimp C, 33, was found dead in his room yesterday at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, California after the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a 911 call....
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DNA Pioneer Watson, Who Claimed Blacks Less Intelligent, Has Black Genes
Nobel Prize-winning scientist and author Dr. James D. Watson, who earlier this year said that blacks are less intelligent than whites, has been found by a DNA lab to have black genes and probably...
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Ruby Bridges, Child Civil Rights Pioneer
In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, we thought we’d tell the story of Ruby Nell Bridges, who became a civil rights pioneer in the first grade. Ruby wasn’t entering just any first grade...
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Joe Louis Movie Premieres as Sister Freezes to Death
As HBO television premieres the documentary Joe Louis: America’s Hero…Betrayed tonight as part of Black History Month, the legendary heavyweight boxing champion’s only surviving sibling, Vunies High,...
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Silda Spitzer’s Annus Horribilis
With news of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s imminent departure on March 15 also came a New York Post article reporting that Hizzoner has been seeing prostitutes for the last 10 years, spending up...
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Reverend Wright Offers No Apologies at Detroit NAACP Dinner
Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who spoke tonight to 12,000 people at the NAACP’s 53rd annual “Fight for Freedom Fund”...
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