“There is no room for knowledge here,” the man in sunglasses says, swirling his glass of whiskey. “There is only room for power.” The scene is from the 2015 Tamil-language Malaysian indie movie Jagat ...

The Impossible Missions Force takes on the absolute ruler of a Middle East nation who is running a secret slave market. Barney poses as a slave, part of an effort to construct a replica of the slave ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones has entered the Jillian Michaels chat with cold, hard facts. After Michaels grossly downplayed the scope of slavery in America during a recent television appearance, Hannah-Jones ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...