On Juneteenth, Paula Deen’s racist acts have even more sting than usual. The famed cook show host admitted in a recorded deposition to using the N-word, telling racist jokes and planning a wedding that used slavery as a theme. Her admission comes on the heels of a lawsuit by a formal general manager of the…
Lee Daniels’ highly-anticipated film, “The Butler,” sparked a heated debate on social media after a photograph from the film made its rounds on the internet. A still from the movie, which follows Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), a head butler at the White House, displays Mariah Carey as a slave picking cotton in the field. The…
Former African tennis pro Jean-Claude Toviave was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for slavery. The Michigan resident fraudulently brought four children from Togo, Africa in 2006 and claimed they were his biological children. Instead of playing the role of a doting father, he was a slave-master. The children were forced to work in…
President Obama and the Democratic Party whacked the Grand Ole Party with an unforeseen combination in the 2012 presidential and state elections: Minorities combined with women combined with Generation Y equaled a landslide victory. In the four months since the major defeat on local, state and national platforms, GOP leaders have been repackaging and rebranding…
After watching the critically acclaimed movie “Lincoln”, Dr. Ranjan Batra, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomical sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, was inspired to do some slavery fact checking on his own. Dr. Batra, who only became a U.S citizen in 2008, discovered that Mississippi never got around to actually ratifying the…
The success of Quentin Tarantino’s Django: Unchained has sparked, what some movie critics are calling, “slave movie fever.” There seems to be a new trend of slave-themed films that are popping up left and right — seven more are scheduled to premiere this year. After the releases Case départ, Django, and Lincoln, our nation engaged…
While most of the country will be celebrating President Barack Obama’s inauguration, a select crop of gun rights advocates will commemorate “Gun Appreciation Day,” on January 19th. “Gun Appreciation Day” was created in response to what some pro-gun groups believe was an overreach by the United States government in regard to gun control following the…
Though “Django Unchained” is doing extraordinary well at the box office, not everyone took kindly to Director Quentin Tarantino’s decision to turn slavery into a Western film. Many thought the movie’s witty dialogue, comic relief by way of chatty Ku Klux Klan members and sensationalist ending trivialized one the most traumatic period in American history….
