In the public debate over immigration reform, President Bush has been pushing a guest worker program that would allow immigrant workers to apply for temporary employment in certain sectors.
Slavery
David Batstone 3-01-2007
Through faith and business savvy, the Hagar Project gives new life to freed slaves in Cambodia.
Elizabeth Palmberg 3-01-2007
The 18th and 19th century movement to abolish slavery, with its many Christian leaders, has much to teach us.
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 9-01-2004
In September, cities on the Atlantic seaboard between Boston and Charleston, South Carolina, will host a dramatic journey of truth telling and reconciliation. White Americans and Europeans will walk silently through the streets literally yoked together with the chains and coffles used to control the slaves traded at
Rose Marie Berger, Brian Bolton 4-01-2004
Dr. Samuel Cotton, a pioneer of the modern anti-slavery movement, died in December after a protracted battle with cancer.
Rose Marie Berger, Jodi Hochstedler 9-01-2002
The world now has purple M&Ms, but hold your applause for the little chocolates until the West African cocoa fields are rid of child slavery.
Rose Marie Berger, Susannah Hunter 11-01-2001
Folks in Midland, Texas, are fed up with slavery and they aren't going to take it anymore.
Yvonne V. Delk 9-01-2001
Statue of Sojourner Truth in Central Park on Womens Equality Day. Photo: John Nacion via Reuters Connect
In 1851, Sojourner Truth asked a simple question: "Arn't I a Woman?" That question, though 150 years old, turned my world upside down.
Bob McLalan 3-01-2001
A conservative Republican makes the case for reparations for African Americans.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 1-01-2000
The U.S. State Department this fall cited Sudan as potentially subject to economic sanctions under the International Religious Freedom Act for its persecution of Christians and other religious groups.
Jim Rice 9-01-1998
Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Jim Rice 9-01-1998
Tens of millions of people were forcibly taken from their homes in Africa in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Danny Duncan Collum 3-01-1998
Oscar time is a'coming, and with it another chance to consider the relationship between Steven Spielberg's world and our own.