Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artifacts, oral histories and 1,500 photographs will attempt to tell the story of not only the mostly European arrivals who passed through Ellis Island but also the millions who came during other eras, from other places and through other points of entry: Africans hauled by force to Southern slave markets, Latin Americans who trekked northward, Asians who flew into San Francisco...
...teachers and the like). Most were summarily executed or tortured to death. By the next morning, the Communist government had begun the complete evacuation of the cities, which Cambodia's new rulers regarded as cesspools of bourgeois corruption. Nearly all Cambodians -- men, women and children -- would be herded into slave-labor communes...
Wiletta is the black actress who realizes that she can no longer pretend to be satisfied with the entertainment industry, which limits Blacks to roles as meek slaves in Civil War productions. Trouble in Mind chronicles Wiletta's resolution to challenge the director and change a scene she believes is not faithful to the slave experience...
...difficult to find heroes and villains. The journalistic world is not like some slave market, in which the roles of exploiter and exploited are clear-cut. It is more like a chaotic bazaar, filled with news peddlers trying to get public exposure and journalists seeking dramatic stories, quotes or facts. Some vendors come to the bazaar for sport: New York hoaxer Alan Abel, for example, specializes in planting false news items, like last fall's stories about the bogus $35 million lottery winner. Others show up because it is their job. Writing in the Gannett Center Journal, Scott Cutlip...
...Magic Kingdom, Oman (estimated pop. 2 million) is a land of exceptional beauty and diversity. A 1,000-mile coastline arcs southward from the limestone cliffs of Musandam to the powdery beaches of Salalah, a major trading town in the monsoon-brushed province of Dhofar. Southwest of the former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose...