As France commemorates the abolishment of slavery in the past, it remains haunted by slavery in the present.
Mississippi Becomes Last State to Ratify 13th Amendment
February 18, 2013 | Posted by
After almost 150 years, Mississippi has become the last state to ratify the 13th Amendment, which put an end to slavery after the Civil War. The formal ratification of the amendment is a symbolic gesture at this point, but had gone without completion since 1995, when lawmakers believed they had passed it. As it turns [...]
Chicago Production, ‘The Whipping Man’, Explores Slavery, Race
January 27, 2013 | Posted by
One could never accuse Northlight Theatre of a lack of eclecticism in its programming. In a matter of weeks, subscribers there in Skokie have gone from chortling at Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, of all things, to a drama that begins with the graphic on-stage amputation — saw, screams, spurting blood and all — of [...]
Prices Rise as eBay Bans ‘Django Unchained’ Action Figures
January 25, 2013 | Posted by
With eBay banning the Django Unchained action figures, and stores refusing to carry the “toys,” people will have to resort to desperate measures to get their hands on the six-doll set. The dolls were manufactured under the direction of The Weinstein Company, the same company that produced the film. After backlash from people such as [...]
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
December 25, 2012 | Posted by
First, there was the big question, which Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer had been talking about for years: What does freedom look like? Then there was the small, somber face of Dolly, whose photograph the two women, both academics, had come across separately in their research and wondered about ever since. It was affixed to [...]
Jamie Foxx Talks Slavery, Filming on Actual Plantation for ‘Django Unchained’
December 14, 2012 | Posted by
You can count the major American movies that deal with the issue of slavery on one hand. When it hits theaters Christmas Day, Django Unchained will be one of those raised fingers — most likely the middle one. In it, Jamie Foxx plays Django, a slave freed by Christoph Waltz’s bounty hunter who is on [...]
Barbados Takes Lead in Fight For Reparations for Slavery in the Caribbean
November 6, 2012 | Posted by
Bridgetown, Barbados – The Barbados government has established a 12-member Reparations Task Force that would be responsible for sustaining the local, regional and international momentum for reparations. It will also conceptualize and articulate strategies, frameworks and projects to accept and manage financial and other resources. “They will also further the research and publication of works [...]
Frederick Douglass and ‘The Abolitionists’ Take Center Stage on PBS in January
October 31, 2012 | Posted by
Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called by many names,the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a [...]
Django Trailer Promises Slavery Film Full of Gunslinging, Humor, Sass
October 11, 2012 | Posted by
Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to make a film about slavery featuring a badass slave and some comedic moments. But from the looks of the latest rendition of the movie trailer, that’s exactly what he does in “Django Unchained.” Scheduled to open on Christmas Day, the film has a star-studded line-up that would have made [...]
California African American Museum presents: ‘African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War’
October 9, 2012 | Posted by
Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman and Abraham Lincoln are a few of the major figures people think of when it comes to the Civil War. But you won’t find any of these people featured in the California African American Museum’s new exhibit. Instead, “African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War” presents photographs of black [...]
