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“WE LONGED FOR A HOME LIKE HERS. THERE WE ALWAYS FOUND SWEET BALSAM FOR OUR TROUBLES. SHE WAS SO LOVING, SO SYMPATHIZING! SHE ALWAYS MET US WITH A SMILE AND LISTENED WITH PATIENCE TO ALL OUR SORROW

“IT WAS THE FIRST TIME SINCE MY CHILDHOOD THAT I HAD EXPERIENCED ANY REAL HAPPINESS. THE DARKEST CLOUD THAT HUNG OVER MY LIFE HAD ROLLED AWAY. WHATEVER SLAVERY MIGHT DO TO ME, IT COULD NOT SHACKLE M

“MY UNCLE PHILLIP, WHO WAS A CARPENTER, HAD VERY SKILLFULLY MADE A CONCEALED TRAP-DOOR. TO THIS HOLE I WAS CONVEYED AS SOON AS I ENTERED THE HOUSE. THE AIR WAS STIFLING. THE DARKNESS TOTAL. I CO

“READER, BE ASSURED THIS NARRATIVE IS NO FICTION,” HARRIET JACOBS WROTE IN THE INTRODUCTION TO HER 1861 MEMOIR ‘INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL.’ “I AM AWARE THAT SOME OF MY ADVENTURES MAY SE

HARRIET JACOBS WAS A SLAVE IN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1842 WHEN SHE MADE HER ESCAPE. SHE WROTE ABOUT HER PERSONAL JOURNEY IN HER 1861 MEMOIR “INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL”. PROFESSOR JEAN F

IN HIS NARROW, MALICIOUS WAY, ROBERTSON IS MAKING A FIRST COMMANDMENT ARGUMENT. BUT IT IS A FUNDAMENTALIST VIEW. IT’S SO UNKIND AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS—AND DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND TO CENTURIES OF THEOLOGICA

HOW LOUD DO THE ALARMS HAVE TO GET? THERE IS AN ECONOMIC EMERGECNY IN THE COUNTRY WITH MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF AMERICANS RIDDLED WITH FEAR AND ANXIETY AS THEY STRUGGLE WITH LONG-TERM JOBLESSNESS, H

ELYRIA, Ohio — PRESIDENT OBAMA, STRIKING A NO-RETREAT, NO-SURRENDER POSTURE IN THE WAKE OF HIS PARTY’S HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE THIS WEEK, VOWED TO PRESS ON WITH HIS EXPANSI

WASHINGTON—THE SUPREME COURT HAS HANDED LOBBYISTS A POTENT NEW WEAPON. A LOBBYIST CAN NOW TELL ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL: IF YOU VOTE WRONG, MY COMPANY, LABOR UNION, OR INTEREST GROUP WILL SPEND UNLIMITED

CONSERVATIVES ARE DELIRIOUS. “WATERBOARDING WINS!” EXULTS THE NATIONAL REVIEW, NOTING THAT BROWN “SPOKE OUT FORCEFULLY IN FAVOR OF ENHANCED INTERROGATION.” MICHAEL GRAHAM CALLS IT A “ONCE-IN-A-LIFE

“THE TRIUMPH OF THE BOOK—AND THEIR LIVES—IS THAT RACE AND RELIGION ARE TRANSCENDED IN THESE INTERWOVEN HISTORIES BY FAMILY LOVE, THE SHEER FORCE OF A MOTHER’S WILL AND HER UNSHAKABLE INSISTENCE THAT O

PORT-AU-PRINCE — WITH THEIR CHURCHES FLATTENED, THEIR PRIESTS KILLED AND THEIR BIBLES LOST AMID THE RUBBLE OF THEIR HOMES, DESPERATE HAITIANS PRAYED IN THE STREETS ON SUNDAY, RAISING THEIR ARMS IN THE

“WE WERE ON THE VERGE OF LOSING AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AMERICAN STORY,” SAID THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TRUST, WHICH DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS, HAS AIDED THE RENOVATION OF 33 ROSENWALD SCHOOLS.

SILENCE. QUIET. STILLNESS. OPENNESS. LISTENING. THESE WORDS DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF SOMEONE WHO IS BEGINNING TO TASTE THE REALITY OF GOD’S PRESENCE WITHIN. YOU ARE INVITED TO AN INTRODUCTORY

THERE IS NOW A BUBBLING DISCONTENT ON THE RIGHT AND, IN PARTICULAR, AMONG WHITES, WHICH IS AIMED AT PRESIDENT OBAMA. MOST WHITES THINK THAT OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR AS PRESIDENT HAS BEEN MAINLY A FAILURE.

IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI, MANY AMERICANS ARE REACHING FOR THEIR CELLPHONES TO MAKE A DONATION VIA TEXT MESSAGE. AND PLENTY OF THEM ARE THEN SPREADING THE WORD TO OTHERS. THE AMERI

AS A MASSIVE HUMAN TRAGEDY UNFOLDS IN HAITI, RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS ARE SOLICITING CREDIT CARD DONATIONS THROUGH THEIR HOTLINES AND WEBSITES. ABOUT 97 PERCENT OF THESE DONATIONS WILL ACTUALLY MAKE IT T

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784), AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO WAS A SLAVE AND A POET, BECAME THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO BE PUBLISHED. THE CITY OF BOSTON ERECTED A STATUE OF PHILLI

“AT LAST, PHILLIS, WE UNDERSTAND. WE KNOW NOW THAT YOU WERE ONLY A SICKLY LITTLE BLACK GIRL, SNATCHED FROM YOUR HOME AND COUNTRY, WHO STILL STRUGGLED TO SING THE SONG THAT WAS YOUR GIFT. IT IS NOT S

BEWARE OF BOGUS ONLINE “HELP” FOR HAITI. IF YOU WANT TO DONATE MONEY, CONSIDER KNOWN AND RELIABLE CHARITIES. YOU CAN HELP RIGHT NOW. SEND TEXT MESSAGE OR DONATE ONLINE THROUGH ONE OF THE ORGANIZ

THE 7.0 EARTHQUAKE THAT HIT HAITI’S CAPITAL, PORT-AU-PRINCE WAS A DEVASTATING DISASTER OF CATACLYSMIC PROPORTIONS. IT MAY TAKE WEEKS BEFORE THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE IS KNOWN. THESE PEOPLE NEED OUR H

IT’S REALLY INTERESTING HOW THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS JUMPED ON HARRY REID’S RACIAL OBSERVATIONS REGARDING BARACK OBAMA’S CANDIDACY. THEY FEEL THAT REID MADE SOME TYPE OF FAUX PAS. Senator R

THE ATTACK ON THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT BY THE TEA PARTY FOLKS GRABS THE GAZE LIKE A REALLY BAD HORROR FLICK—SOME VERSION OF “HEE HAW” MEETS “28 DAYS LATER.” IT’S FASCINATING. BUT IT ALSO RAISES