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Suspenseful, Historical Novel Love Story Addressing the Complexities of Race, Family and Slavery nominated for NAACP Image Award

Former Microsoft Cloud Engineer builds state-of-the-art cloud computing bundle for small businesses, contributing portion of revenues to the eradication of human trafficking.

Human Trafficking throughout the world--including in The United States. Human Trafficking Awareness Day is set aside for Wednesday, January 11, 2012 for people to pray to end human trafficking.

With the Iowa GOP caucus being the closest in history, we are reminded of the importance of every American today. Professor Christopher Webber says Americans can learn much about fortitude and life from 19th Century freed slave James Pennington.

Ms. Myrna Padilla, a former domestic servant for 20 years and the founder of a successful business process outsourcing company, has launched a new website to mobilize the 10 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) to fight modern day human slavery.

Suspenseful, Historical Novel Love Story Addressing the Complexities of Race, Family and Slavery nominated for NAACP Image Award

Former Microsoft Cloud Engineer builds state-of-the-art cloud computing bundle for small businesses, contributing portion of revenues to the eradication of human trafficking.

Human Trafficking throughout the world--including in The United States. Human Trafficking Awareness Day is set aside for Wednesday, January 11, 2012 for people to pray to end human trafficking.

Global Slavery Remembrance Day will host a Human Trafficking Awareness Conference in Frisco, TX, featuring a screening of producer/director Chelo Alvarez-Stehle's SANDS OF SILENCE documentary rough cut and SOS_SLAVES social impact game prototype.

With the Iowa GOP caucus being the closest in history, we are reminded of the importance of every American today. Professor Christopher Webber says Americans can learn much about fortitude and life from 19th Century freed slave James Pennington.

In light of recent desperate actions by our corrupted Congress, it is important to remember that Benjamin Franklin repeatedly reminded lawmakers that those who sacrifice our freedoms for an illusion of safety, deserve neither freedom nor safety.

Rob McConnell host and executive producer of the internationally syndicated talk radio and TV show The 'X' Zone Radio & TV Show and publisher of The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper puts reality into the end of the Mayan Calendar - December 21 2012 mix.

Laura E Miller, President and CEO of REL-MAR McConnell Media Company Announces Person of the year for 2011 is Author and Avtivist LUCIA MANN.

Real-Life Black Civil War Hero Is Lauded in ‘Smalls’ Run’

"According to the United Nations, there are more than 27 million slaves worldwide, which are more than twice the number of those who were enslaved over the 400 years that transatlantic slavers trafficked humans to work in the Americas." - L Mann

A novel of epic proportions, Alvin Yusin’s Apple Hill follows the lives of three generations of one family in the years leading up to and including the Civil War.

Shop To Stop Slavery offers a socially conscious shopping experience as well as knowledge to shoppers at women’s shows, including the Southern Women’s Show Jacksonville.

Southern California professor D. Emily Hicks has discovered that she and President Obama share Melungeon ancestry. This, along with findings by another researcher has led to a breakthrough in Hicks' work on borders and mixed ancestry.

Sophia A. Nelson, author, women’s advocate, political pundit and a longtime moderate Republican weighs in on Michele Bachmann/GOP controversial comments about state of black family

Planking, one of the hottest viral activities has come under fire. Rap artist Xzibit has recently tweeted that the popular activity is" a way they transported slaves." and states that,"its not funny. Educate yourselves.”

You can now own your personal copy of this historic project for under $20!

This year, Friends of Negro Spirituals will be among the organizations in America celebrating Juneteenth

Organizer of Peace Rally for International Black Unity Day Releases Letter Sent to U.S. Ambassador to Thailand

"FLESH" the movie announces its acceptance into the Awareness Festival 2011.

Have you ever wondered why many movies depict black people like Cleopatra as a European, Hannibal as a cruel Brute, Ramses as a Bad Guy or Imhotep as a crazed evil mummy?

The free arts and cultural events during the month of April focus on art, music, history and storytelling

NY1 News Anchor Cheryl Wills traces her roots and discovers that her great great great grandfather was a former slave who fought in the Civil War!

Daria Trifu, Romanian Film Producer, becomes a nominee for the 2011 CNN Hero award.

Documentary On Church Founder & Abolitionist is 'Long Overdue'

Hyland has shaped and enriched American history with an authentic portrayal of Thomas Jefferson and debunks revisionist history.

Joshua: Out of the Desert takes us to another time, when a journey out of slavery and the Egyptian desert led a people to their destiny and a higher purpose.

Dr Christiana Oware Knudsen releases an engaging historical commentary on Danish slave trading activities in Ghana with poignant contemporary relevance.

Fair trade cards creating critical jobs and helping to rebuild lives.

Essential Theatre presents "Darker Face of the Earth" by Rita Dove, directed by Betty Hart, opening night reception with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Former U.S. Poet Laureate, playwright Rita Dove. July 8th, VIP reception 7 pm, 8 pm performance.

Every 10 minutes, a child or an adult somewhere in the world is recruited, kidnapped or smuggled in to the U.S. to work as an indentured or forced laborer in domestic servitude, sweatshop, agriculture, brothels, prostitution rings and pornography.

The initiative receives endorsements from key human trafficking organizations

Just days before his murder, Elijah Lovejoy told a crowd, “Think not that I regret the choice I have made. While all around me is violence and tumult, all is peace within.” A new 54-page biography for young readers explains why.

Author, Terry L. Bowser, draws an analogy between Joseph and the history of African Americans in his book, From Slavery to the Presidency: What the Man Intended for Evil...God Has Meant for Good!

The non-profit group aims to collect one million signatures between Jan. 25, 2010, and March 31, 2010, to place the initiative on the November 2010 ballot.

The first Global Forum on Human Trafficking, presented by the Not For Sale Campaign, will be welcomed in by an exclusive acoustic performance headlined by Grammy Award winner T-Bone Burnett with BRMC, Jon Foreman, Brad Corrigan and Brant Christopher

Elfs work hard in the land of make believe, but real children forced to work seven days a week, 20 hours per day is a REAL atrocity! Santa.net is promoting consumer awareness: Gift giving to one child, doesn't need to make another child a slave!

Adam Wasserman, a 21-year old college student from Sarasota, Florida, has released a 586-page nonfiction history book titled A People's History of Florida.

Alvin Yusin’s Apple Hill is a riveting narration of the Civil War and the years leading up to it.

Louis Gossett Jr. has joined the cast of "Dog Jack", the highly anticipated Civil war story about a runaway slave boy and his dog. The film is based on the book by Florence Biros.

The World Peace Political Party is where a lot of good people are wanted and needed! Why? To create a World Without War! Join now!! More...

24/7 is ludicrous and should be replaced with 30/15. Swiatek’s book on work, “This Page Intentionally Left Blank,” argues for a 30-hour workweek and a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Both are doable and would benefit the workers and big business.

What Happened to the Republican Party - Who is the Republican Party and Who in History was a Republican?

Friends of Negro Spirituals to release Oakland's First Negro Spirituals Oral Histories to Mills College and Oakland Libraries

James G. Basker, president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute in American History will lecture on "Abraham Lincoln, Abolition and Wilberforce" for the Friends of History at PSU and the Oregon Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

An epic and graphic tale of antebellum ghosts, supernatural spies, and a den of iniquity amid the Red Maple and Magnolia trees...

After his debut novel, Alliance & Defiance was published in 2004, H.D. Armstrong returns with a non-fiction piece entitled: Born Black: The Pride and the Pain. (paperback, 67 pp. 6" x 9". $15.00, LULU.com Publishing).

T.K. Kenyon, novelist, is auctioning off the naming rights for a character in her next novel. All proceeds will go to Polaris Project, an anti-slavery charity. The 10-day auction on Ebay.com will begin 7/3 and run to Fri, 7/13/07. Ebay #190128866026

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