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Second, the case for black reparations moves beyond the historical harm of slavery. The case for black reparations becomes even more salient because present-day African-Americans suffer from on-going injustice. To be sure, slavery anchors the claim to repair: it has been estimated that the present-day value of expropriated slave-labor ranges to trillions of dollars, depending the rate of interest. Importantly, the emancipated slaves were neither compensated for this toil, nor treated as equal citizens upon their emancipation. Instead, freed slaves and their descendants were subjected to the Jim Crow period of legalized discrimination and segregation...
...Beverly Hills, 90210” has become a cliché now, due to many years of popularity and the dozens of shows that have followed in its wake, from early Fox imitators like “The Heights” to present-day soaps like “Dawson’s Creek” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Despite the teen drama’s many permutations in the last dozen years, culminating in its recent ubiquity on the WB, it’s a shame that the genre has never successfully...
Certainly, Titus fit the bill: an opera of horror and gore which features human sacrifice, gang rape, loping of limbs and feasts of filial sweetbreads. With the play, young Shakespeare scored a hit, proving that Elizabethan audiences were at least as bloodthirsty as the groundlings that hound present-day cineplexes...
...16th century, the fiery invader Babur swooped down from present-day Afghanistan to begin his conquest of Hindu India, which started three centuries of foreign rule known as the Mogul period. In 1528, one of his noblemen built a mosque in Ayodhya. History suggests the Muslim invaders dismantled a Hindu temple to do so. That's the building and the site that is provenance of the current conflict: some Hindus say the temple, and then the mosque, sat on the actual birthplace of Rama. For a century-and-a-half, Hindus and Muslims squabbled over the mosque. For Hindus, reclaiming...
...store has always mixed the traditional with the out-of-the-way. In 1854, when it started out at the present-day location of Au Bon Pain, its circular advertised “foreign leeches of recent importation always on hand...