Slavery

  • Democracy Now! August 20, 2002

    WITCHHUNT AGAINST AIDS ACTIVIST GROUPS/FBI IS SUED/ THOUSANDS RALLY IN DC FOR REPARATIONS |9:00-9:01 Billboard: The Health Department launches a witchhunt against AIDS activists: groups that protested against Health Secretary Tommy Thompson at the AIDS conference in Barcelona are targeted. FBI is sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for shielding The Animal mobster and…

  • Democracy Now! August 30, 2001

    THE DEBT: RANDALL ROBINSON TALKS ABOUT WHAT AMERICA OWES TO BLACKS [Replay of DN! January 17, 2000] |THE DEBT: RANDALL ROBINSON TALKS ABOUT WHAT AMERICA OWES TO BLACKS Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and as people across the United States commemorate the life of the great civil rights leader, many here still languish…

  • Democracy Now! September 5, 2001

    AT THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS A EUROPEAN UNION APOLOGY FOR CENTURUES OF SLAVERY;  SENIOR DIPLOMATS CHARGE THAT SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS, NOT ISRAEL, IS  THE  REAL REASON FOR THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL; AND WELL LOOK AT THE STRUGGLE OF INDIAS DALIT, OR UNTOUCHABLE CASTE, FOR AN END TO WHAT THEY SAY IS SYSTEM…

  • Democracy Now! September 3, 2001

    A TASTE OF SLAVERY: CHILD SLAVE LABOR AND THE INTERNATIONAL COCOA TRADE, FROM THE IVORY COAST TO THE MOUTHS OF BABES HERE IN THE U.S. [Replay of DN! July 19, 2001] |Headline News. A TASTE OF SLAVERY: CHILD SLAVE LABOR AND THE INTERNATIONAL COCOA TRADE, FROM THE IVORY COAST TO THE MOUTHS OF BABES HERE…

  • Democracy Now! November 6, 1998

    U.S. Options After U.N. Iraq Resolution; Jefferson’s Emancipation; Presidential Task Force-Sweatshops; Activists’ Tribunal on Police Brutality |U.S. Considers Options After U.N. Iraq ResolutionU.S. has signaled that it plans to move ahead with preparations for unilateral aire strikes against Iraq. GUEST: Farhan Haq, U.N. correspondent for the Inter-Press ServiceJefferson’s Emancipation – CommentaryA DNA study pubished yesterday…

  • Democracy Now! December 2, 1998

    Perjury Inquiry; Wal-mart; John Brown Anniversary |(14 Minutes) Perjury Inquiry The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to expand its probe into Clinton-Gore fundraising. Meanwhile, the Federal Election Commission has ruled that President Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole illegally used campaign funds for advertising in their 96 campaigns and must guve back…

  • Sex, lies, and Civil Rights : the life and work of Ida B. Wells / Paula Giddings.

    SEX, LIES, AND CIVIL RIGHTS : THE LIFE AND WORK OF IDA B. WELLS / Paula Giddings. – Talk by Paula Giddings in which she presents a biographical sketch of Ida B. Wells, an African-American woman who began the Civil Rights movement right after the Civil War. Giddings traces how Wells’ view of human rights…

  • Black women in North American slavery / produced by Earl Richardson and Cedric Hendricks.

    Historical documentary on the experiences of Black women in North American slave societies.

  • Roots of slavery.

    Discussion presents views of history outside the mainstream of historical thought.