Some links. I hope, agree or disagree (I'm OTOH-BOTOH, I guess), you find them interesting:

Slavery ... cannot explain the difference between American blacks and West Indian blacks living in the United States because the ancestors of both were enslaved. When race, racism, and slavery all fail the empirical test, what is left ( Read more... )

A haunting picture of a thin and forlorn-looking African girl has this caption under it: "A 12-year-old girl, given up as a slave to atone for a crime by a member of her family, stands at the beck and call of a traditional priest in Tefle, Ghana." This is not a painting of something that happened long ago. It is a photograph that appeared in the ( Read more... )

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By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

By David Willey
BBC News, Rome

Italian archaeologists digging in the Roman Forum have found a well-preserved skeleton of a woman who lived 3,000 years ago.

The astonishing fact about this discovery is that it dates back to at least 300 years before the traditional date of the founding of Rome, 753 BC.

check out the original article (with a picture) or

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Married at the age of four, an Afghan girl was subjected to years of beatings and torture, finally escaping to discover that within all the world's cruelty, there is also some kindness.http://news.yahoo.com/s/hotzone/20060320/hz_afghanistan_0306/

Original article (with a map and stuff): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/science/31slav.html?hp&ex=1138683600&en=0fc3f26d0c11d89c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

While remodeling the central plaza in ( Read more... )

With non-white faces a rarity in media and politics, a new station aims to bridge racial divide

Tom Phillips in Sao Paulo, Monday November 21, 2005, The Guardian

"Is it on air? We're on the air!" With the push of a button and these hesitant words, Brazil's first black television channel came into existence yesterday ( Read more... )