Slavery

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly detailed the "brutal injustice" of his Irish ancestors and said slavery reparations for black Americans falsely reinforces that the U.S. was founded by racist white men.

Fox News host Laura Ingraham dismissed the arguments for slavery reparations during her podcast, saying: "It's called conquest."

The debate on reparations for slavery was the focus of a Congressional hearing on Wednesday for the first time in a decade.

Candace Owens, founder of the "Blexit" movement, said on Fox News host Laura Ingraham's show that welfare "socialized" black communities.

Women, men, and children held in nightmarish detention centers in Libya face an even greater risk to life and limb as rival factions escalate their fight for the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

"The president is now glorifying a loser," Congressman James Clyburn pointed out on Sunday. "Robert E. Lee was a loser," he asserted.

Georgetown students voted in favor of adding a semesterly fee of $27.20 to tuition costs to fund reparations for the descendants of 272 slaves sold in 1838 to help pay the university's debts. 

Talk radio host Larry Elder ridiculed the concept of slavery reparations, denouncing Democratic lawmakers for vowing to "extract" money from people who were never slave owners to give to people "who were never slaves."

"She exploited somebody else's culture and I'm the racist for pointing it out? I love that!" Tucker Carlson said.

"If you want to start a problem and to inflame racial tension even more, start blaming people who have nothing to do with slavery, for the sin of slavery," conservative commentator Katie Pavlich said.

Senator Kamala Harris, a contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said that reparations should be made to the African-American community, explaining that more needed to be done to address mental health.

"I think you had 600,000 people brought to the United States under involuntary servitude, or slavery, and 620,000 died in the Civil War."

Fox News host Mark Levin said Senator Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democratic Party should pay African-Americans back for slavery reparations.

"People aren't starting out on the same base in terms of their ability to succeed, and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up," Senator Kamala Harris said.

Author Ayesha Harruna Attah fell in love with her homeland Ghana during a summer trip to visit her grandparents in the country's northern savannah.

Washington is the model of the citizen-statesman that most every one of those who followed him into the nation's highest office has sought to emulate.

Governor Ralph Northam has rejected calls to resign, saying, "Virginia needs someone that can heal."

Tucker Carlson accused the left of racism against whites during his Fox News show.

"He said he would sell me into slavery if I didn't do what he said, and then he started making little jingles about slavery," said one of the girls.

"Barack Obama is an African-American, but he has nothing to do with the black slave experience or civil rights. He is black just because his father happened to be a British subject born in colonial Kenya."

With hate crimes on the rise, the message from activist lawyer Bryan Stevenson couldn't be more urgent.

"No one should be forced to live in such degrading and disgusting conditions," one anti-slavery officer said.

Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan posted a clip of a Sunday speech in Detroit, in which he compared Jews to termites and claimed both white and Jewish people are working against him.

The Trump administration is set to deport four men to slavery hotbed Mauritania just a week after the president said they were working to protect victims of traffickers.

Kanye West has struck out against the 13th Amendment, calling it "slavery in disguise."

Nationwide prison protests have called attention to work conditions that advocates are likening to slavery. Inmates cook, clean and perform other necessary operations for little, if any, compensation.

After meeting the man who abused her under ISIS captivity, Ashwaq Ta'lo said she "decided to return to Kurdistan and never go back to Germany."

On Saturday, Republican Congressman Tom Garrett of Virginia claimed that Russia "fanned the flames" of racial discord that led to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, one year ago.

"The Chi" writer Marcus Gardley mixes history, some August Wilson and Tennessee Williams and a little voodoo in "The House That Will Not Stand," his haunting adaptation of "The House of Bernarda Alba."

The discovery was made when the Fort Bend Independent School District broke ground for a new technical center.