In 2001, my husband Bill was jolted out of racial complacency. In 2001, my husband Bill was jolted out of racial complacency. Through books he read and conversations he had with A ...

Sunday, January 11 was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. I wrote this poem, <em>And to the Little Ones,</em> in honor of the day. Sunday, January 11 was Natio ...

We stand at what could be the greatest divide in American history. We stand at what could be the greatest divide in American history. America has come from Native American genocid ...

More people around the world will watch Barack Obama's inauguration than any other presidential inauguration in history. More people around the world will watch Barack Obama& ...

Eight years ago, the United Nations proclaimed Dec. 18 as <a href="http://www.nnirr.org/">International Migrants Day</a>. Eight years ago, the United Nations ...

Soldiers entering villages and killing people on sight. Landmines blowing pregnant women to smithereens. There's no way this is really going on. The world would never tolerate this. ...

As the third largest fast-food chain in the world adds its name to a <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=1346">growing list of giants to deliver wage increases and working conditi ...

<p>On this day in 1797, Isabella Baumfree (<a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&amp;issue=soj0109&amp;article=010923">Sojourner Truth</a>) was born ...

Social location is vital to understanding how people come to their interpretations, and appropriations, of the Bible and its stories. Social location is vital to understanding how ...

<p><a href="http://www.callandresponse.com"></a></p> Last week two films were released that present propagandized visions of the Unite ...

On July 29, 2008, history was made in the United States House of Representatives &ndash; well, kinda. On July 29, 2008, history was made in the United States House of Represen ...

I'm still "down under" -- wrapping up my book tour in Australia. The news from the U.S. I'm still "down under" -- wrapping up my book tour in Austra ...

Slavery in the United States did not end in a night or even a year or decade. Slavery in the United States did not end in a night or even a year or decade. Even now, long past sla ...

In the shadow of India's economic miracle lies a people often deemed untouchable, largely impoverished, and seemingly invisible. In the shadow of India's economic miracl ...

Donald W. Shriver Jr. Apologies for slavery must be followed by steps to justice. Between January 2007 and Mar ...

Nothing has exposed the severe ethical troubles of the world's second largest burger chain quite so lucidly as a slave break in Florida&acute;s tomato country in November. ...

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez In the public debate over immigration reform, Preside ...

David Batstone Through faith and business savvy, the Hagar Project gives new life to freed slaves in Cambodia. ...

Elizabeth Palmberg The 18th and 19th century movement to abolish slavery, with its many Christian leaders, has much to teach us. ...

David Batstone The modern global slave trade and those who fight it. Twenty-seven million slaves exist in our ...

Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton In September, In September, cities on the Atlantic seaboard between Bo ...

Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton Dr. Samuel Cotton, a pioneer of the modern anti-slavery ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler The world now has purple M&Ms, but hold your app ...

Rose Marie Berger Susannah Hunter Folks in Midland, Texas, are fed up with slavery and ...

Yvonne V. Delk 2001 marked the 150th anniversary of Sojourner Truth's famous "Arn't I A Woman?" speech. What does this ...

Rose Marie Berger How Isabella Baumfree became Sojourner Truth. When Isabella Baumfree was born into a Dutch-s ...

Ryan Beiler Left and right, Sudan's finally getting much needed attention. When she was secretary of stat ...

Bob McLalan A conservative Republican makes the case for reparations for African Americans. I recently heard a ...

Tony P. Hall Why we should apologize for slavery. June 19—the day 135 years ago when the last Americans held ...

Ryan Beiler The U.S. The U.S. State Department this fall cited Sudan as potentially subject to economic sancti ...

Jim Rice Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

Jim Rice Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries. ...

Danny Duncan Collum Oscar time is a'coming, and with it another chance to consider the relationship between Steven Spielberg's w ...