Elizabeth B. Wydra, Immigration Policy Center. September 17, 2009. For over a decade bills have been introduced in Congress to end automatic citizenship for persons born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally.
Christian Parenti, Democracy Now! AlterNet: World. September 14, 2009. Kevin Bales, founder of Free the Slaves, champions his reform of the chocolate industry and halting child labor in West Africa. But no such thing has happened.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. August 24, 2009. One writer spent four years inside the world of modern-day slavery; an industry that produces huge profits and countless wasted lives.
Michael Dudley, AlterNet. July 22, 2009. Duncan Jones' new film raises profound questions about the nature of our identities, as well as our relationships to our institutions.
Agence France Presse June 18, 2009. The resolution apologes for the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery" of African-Americans.
Amy Goodman, Truthdig. November 13, 2008. On Inauguration Day, Obama could outlaw torture. It would be a tribute to those slaves who built his new home, the White House.
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Rodale Inc. August 1, 2008. The new book Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated exposes the gravity of sexual slavery -- evil in its extreme.
Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet. July 4, 2008. Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.
Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. June 12, 2008. At Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison, which sits on a former slave plantation, prisoners are doing more than surviving. They are organizing.
Jessica Mosby, The Wip. June 10, 2008. Northerners are usually portrayed as benevolent abolitionists. But one woman tells a different story of slavery in the "deep north."
James Parks, Workday Minnesota. April 8, 2008. 'They took away our hopes and dreams and shattered us mentally -- end to this system of modern-day slavery.'
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. December 27, 2007. Ron Paul tossed out yet another juicy zinger this time on "Meet the Press" when he said that Lincoln was a bad guy for fighting the civil war.
Bernard Crick, Comment Is Free. December 5, 2007. Slavery may be outlawed, but as a group of workers in Florida show, some battles still need fighting.
Jillian, AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2007. Jillian: Way to go, Medved, have you considered pimping this argument out to David Duke? I bet he'd love it.
Rebecca Clarren, Ms. Magazine. August 15, 2007. An investigation into the shadow world of sex and labor trafficking in the United States reveals not just the dimensions of the problem but the startling inadequacy of the federal response.
Margaret Kamara, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. June 28, 2007. To white Americans, giving up television is a hardship; being black is not. That's the upshot of a series of studies by researchers at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Edward Rhymes, Black Agenda Report. May 19, 2007. While white women's sexuality is celebrated in movies and magazines, Black women acting out the same behavior are relegated to the ranks of whoredom.
Democracy Now!March 21, 2007. Professor, culture critic, and social justice advocate Cornel West talks about the need to make radical reformism fashionable among young people again.
Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, The Nation. March 20, 2007. As in the historical Dred Scott and Amistad cases, the Supreme Court must once again rule on whether the executive branch of the government can seize, imprison, and abuse people without allowing an appeal to the court.
David Batsone, Sojourners. March 15, 2007. A thriving commerce in human beings is taking place behind the facade of most major cities and towns in the U.S. and worldwide. Activists are pushing back, but they need reinforcements.
