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...Slavery has not been a monolithic institution, but has had many forms and requirements which have varied throughout history.[1] Slavery is typically thought of as one human being owning another human being as a type of property, with broad rights to do with his slave as he wishes. The slave is without certain basic rights, such as the freedom to leave his employment and similar aspects of personal liberty, or to acquire real property, or gain inheritance. Slaves are more objects of law, in contrast to usually being accountable subjects. Slaves were considered movable property in certain societies, while in...

Here’s Rupert Wyatt, director of the blockbuster movie Rise of the Planet of the Apes in a recent interview: “(The script) had become very different and much more exciting to me. It became less a story of domesticization of a pet and more about an uprising and a Che Guevara story.” Here’s the Associated Press review of “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”: “Raised much like a human child by a researcher, with help from a veterinarian, Caesar becomes a Che Guevara-style revolutionary, leading a rebellion of apes against their human oppressors.” Ground control to Director Wyatt:

DRIPPING SPRINGS, TEX. - Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna, the self-described "Napoleon of the West," is ready to inspire some shock and awe among the citizenry of San Antonio. Or, at least, an actor playing him is. Proudly resplendent in gold-braided regalia, the general impassively oversees the advance of his mounted soldiers through the narrow 19th-century streets. Impressed locals spill into a sprawling plaza to noisily cheer the display of military might. Director John Lee Hancock smiles approvingly. He knows this isn't what really happened on that fateful February morning in 1836. But he also knows he has just...

After his fifth apology, on Black Educational Television, and his promise to honor Martin Luther King Day and support affirmative action forever, Trent Lott packed it in. That was the signal for the pogrom.