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...that necessary for Black pride? Why is Holocaust denial an ingredient in terms of oppression [of Blacks]?" Foxman asked, referring to historians who have accused Jews of engaging in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade...
...practice of taking over its members' financial assets. One 35-year-old who has since left the group says that when he became a devout follower, he was required to surrender his passport to the group and donate all his cash and belongings. He also recounts working under near slave-labor conditions at a sect project on the southern island of Kyushu. "Their strategy is to wear you down and take control of your mind," he says. "They promise you heaven, but they make you live in hell...
...popular legends, is neither a politically correct icon nor a cardboard character, drained of his ethnicity. He is one of the group, yet with his own story. When Henry talks with Daniel about father-son relationships, he speaks wistfully of his own father, sold downriver because he was a slave...
WASHINGTON. This month marks the centenary of the death of Frederick Douglass, the Maryland slave born in 1818 who became the most renowned African-American voice of his generation in the U.S. antislavery movement and a relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...
...friend in Paris, he was confronted "at every step" with "ready-made paintings which would make the fame and fortune of 20 generations of painters." And in a sense he was right. From Delacroix on, Oriental exoticism would bulk ever larger in the offerings of the Paris salon: slave markets, dim fretted courtyards, hawk-nosed Arabs and their Barbary mounts, recumbent houris...