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African likely to get prison in Mich. child slavery case
DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking at least nine years in prison for an African man who was convicted of forcing children to work as slaves at his Ypsilanti home. The government also is asking a judge to order Jean-Claude Toviave to pay two of...Tags: Punishment, Togo
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Game shows students perils of Underground Railroad
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A team of Ball State University professors and students has developed an online game designed to help elementary school pupils learn what it was like to be a runaway slave traveling the Underground Railroad. Professors Ron...Tags: Ball State University, Railway Transportation, Teaching and Learning, Ohio River, Travel
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GOP lawmaker who made pro-slavery comments compares Arkansas gov, AG to Nazis
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican legislator in Arkansas under fire for writing that slavery may have been a "blessing in disguise" for African-Americans blasted the state's top Democrats in a letter published Thursday, comparing them to Nazis...
Tags: Democratic Party, Social Issues, Politics, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln
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Obama could be descended from African slave
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ancestry.com says it has found evidence that President Barack Obama could be a descendent of an African slave. Obama's black father is from Kenya and his white mother is from Kansas. It has been reported repeatedly in the past...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House
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IU protest of pastor's speech leads to 1 arrest
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A student protest of an evangelical pastor's speech led to chanting and at least one arrest on the Indiana University campus. IU Police Chief Keith Cash tells the Herald-Times (http://bit.ly/IbBlPA ) that 21-year-old...
Tags: Social Issues, Indiana University, Police Arrests
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Being a pill about the pill? Santorum vs US views
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans don't share Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He's out of step on women in combat. He questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's even troubled by something as commonplace as birth...Tags: Roman Catholicism, CBS Corp., Family Planning, Quinnipiac University, Rick Santorum
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Mom: Son was told to picture himself a slave
MELVINDALE, Mich. (AP) — A biracial mother in the Detroit area says her son was given a writing assignment that required him to pretend he's a slave. Jessica Gibson tells the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/zTJfOg) that the assignment was...Tags: Politics, Freedom of the Press
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'Sanitization' of 'Huck Finn' doesn't sit well with local educators
Although the upcoming makeover of Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is grabbing a lot of media attention these days, one local expert says altering the classics is not a new phenomenon.
Victoria Gutschenritter, assistant director...Tags: Book, Social Issues, Schools, High Schools, Education
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Historic reading of Constitution sees House tussle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans made history Thursday by staging the first-ever reading of the entire Constitution on the House floor. But that record may come with an asterisk: Democrats asked why original sections that later were amended,...Tags: History, Frank Guinta, Hawaii, Constitutional Issues, Interior Policy
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Constitution reading provokes political tussling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats took turns politely in a historic recitation of the Constitution from the House floor Thursday, but the decorum hardly meant they were in agreement. In a nod to the tea partiers who put the Republicans...Tags: Frank Guinta, Hawaii, Constitutional Issues, Interior Policy, Justice and Rights
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Blacks' role in Confederacy remains touchy subject
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Civil War commemorations planned for the next several years have revived an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy. Confederate law...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Minority Groups, Social Issues, African Americans
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#PaulasBestDishes goes viral after Paula Deen racism controversy
Following a report that Paula Deen uses the N-word repeatedly, likes to tell racist jokes, and once proposed using black waiters dressed as slaves at a wedding, the hashtag #PaulasBestDishes was trending on Twitter. Inspired by her Food Network...Tags: Juneteenth, Diabetes, Racism, Social Issues, Twitter, Inc.
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