It’s time for Democrats to ditch Andrew Jackson
As Biden speaks at event named for Old Hickory tonight, more appalling stories show party should dump him as icon
Friday, May 3, 2013 3:48 PM UTC 39Elections Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory
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Elections Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory
5 things you may not know about death penalty
With Maryland becoming the latest state to abolish its use, we look back on capital punishment's tortured history
Wednesday, Apr 3, 2013 1:05 PM UTCLife AlterNet, Death Penalty
Is gun control racist?
A new ad from a black conservative group sees echoes of Jim Crow in proposals to expand background checks VIDEO
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 4:24 PM UTC 17Politics Video, Gun Control, Guns, Race
Cuccinelli compares slavery abolition to anti-abortion movement
The Republican Attorney General said of both, "history has shown us what the right position was"
Wednesday, Mar 20, 2013 1:12 AM UTC 34Politics Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia, slavery
CPAC panel on racism goes awry
[UPDATED] The panel was intended to teach Tea Partyers how to fight back against charges that they are racist VIDEO
Friday, Mar 15, 2013 9:02 PM UTC 81Politics Video, Racism, Tea Party Patriots
New York school assigns racist word-problems to fourth-graders
A fourth-grade teacher hands out math problems using dead slaves as units of measurement
Friday, Feb 22, 2013 4:36 PM UTC 70Life Education, slavery
No, BuzzFeed, no one seriously compared anything to slavery
Ed Markey brought the case up, but he's not the one constantly "equating" stuff with Dred Scott
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:55 PM UTC 28Politics Politics, slavery, Ed Markey
Mississippi “officially” bans slavery
The state finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment but modern-day slavery is still thriving
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:00 PM UTCNews AlterNet, slavery, Mississippi
Must-see morning clip: Mississippi ratifies the 13th Amendment
Jon Stewart mocks Mississippi for finally catching up to the 19th century VIDEO
Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 1:59 PM UTCEntertainment Video, Mississippi, abolition
Immigration, yes. Indentured serfdom, no
The dark side of immigration reform: A new "guest worker program" that's as close as we may get to modern slavery
Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 14Politics Immigration, Immigration Reform
GOP sensitivity training takes place in room named for plantation
The House GOP is learning about “successful communication with minorities and women" in a very unusual setting
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 6:23 PM UTC 24Life Racism, slavery, Civil War, GOP
Just how factual is “Lincoln”?
Historians question whether Spielberg has made the 16th president into an unrealistic hero
Thursday, Jan 17, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 37Entertainment Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Welcome to the new Civil War
Lincoln's unfinished war rages on, as the neo-Confederacy tries to turn back the clock on women, gays, God and guns
Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 4:30 PM UTC 203Life Lincoln, Editor's Picks
Tarantino is the baddest black filmmaker working today
"Django Unchained" is the perfect revenge fantasy for black people -- except that it was made by a white man
Thursday, Dec 27, 2012 5:44 PM UTC 36Entertainment entertainment news
Spike Lee: “Django Unchained” is “disrespectful to my ancestors”
The famous film director refuses to see Tarantino's latest movie
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 3:15 PM UTC 29Entertainment Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino’s incoherent three-hour bloodbath
"Django Unchained" has action, comedy, fake history and oceans of blood -- but it's an endless, undisciplined mess
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 2:39 PM UTC 57Entertainment Movies, Action movies
How should we talk about blackface?
A new book tries -- and often fails -- to untangle its complicated legacy in American popular culture
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 9:00 PM UTCEntertainment Mad Men, Tyler Perry
Lessons for Obama, from Abe Lincoln
In Spielberg's "Lincoln," a vilified president outfoxes his hateful opponents in a bitterly divided America
Saturday, Nov 3, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 23Elections Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, slavery
“Master of the Mountain”: The real truth about Thomas Jefferson
Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 60Entertainment Founding Fathers, slavery
Ten conservatives who have praised slavery
Republican Rep. Jon Hubbard is the latest to deem it a blessing. His position is not as uncommon as you'd think
Friday, Oct 12, 2012 2:42 PM UTC 24Politics slavery, Conservatism
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