New Jersey gets set to say sorry for slavery
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A committee of the New Jersey Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution that would make the state the first north of the Mason-Dixon line to apologize for slavery.
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Lawyers for slave descendants asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to a revive a landmark reparations case that demands 17 of the nation's insurers and banks publicize and pay for their roles in the country's slave trade.
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RENTON, Aug. 17 - A New Jersey developer who is one of the nation&#39;s top Democratic campaign contributors is scheduled to plead guilty to criminal charges on Wednesday morning in a case in which he is accused of hiring a prostitute to ...
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The UN is leading a day of global events to mark the abolition of slavery and to highlight continuing abuses.
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The U.S. Congress is considering a demand that Japan apologize for its use of sexual slaves during World War II.
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New Jersey allows cruelty  to farm animals by failing to ban practices such as castration  without anesthetic, animal rights activists said on Wednesday  in a lawsuit that might help set national standards for the  treatment of livestock.
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Jesse Jackson now says he doesnÃ¢ÂÂt remember saying it, but South CarolinaÃ¢ÂÂs largest newspaper, The State, is standing by its story that the civil rights leader complained after a speech there that Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is Ã¢ÂÂacting like he&#39;s whiteÃ¢ÂÂ for not speaking out more forcefully about a racially charged schoolyard beating in Louisiana.
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New Jersey will become the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty under a measure lawmakers approved Thursday and the governor intends to sign within days
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LONDON -- An emotional Mayor Ken Livingstone apologized yesterday for his city's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, saying London was still tainted by it.
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An impassioned apology today from James McGreevey in his farewell address as governor of New Jersey. McGreevey&#39;s speech to hundreds of 400 supporters in Trenton came three months after he
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White marchers will wear chains on their hands and yokes on their necks while being escorted by black people, and everyone will wear T-shirts with a message of apology as a group of African and European Christians visits the United States this fall with a message of reconciliation.
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Japan voiced regret Tuesday as the US Congress moved forward with a resolution demanding an unambiguous apology from Tokyo for forcing Asian women into sexual slavery before and during World War II.
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Liberiaâs Truth and Reconciliation Commission will collect testimony on Staten Island, home to a large population of survivors of civil war.
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St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn held a commemoration to express the grief of the slave trade from Africa to the New World.
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The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact
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Cabinet minister Peter Hain apologised for the roles Wales and Northern Ireland played in the slave trade, about six weeks before the bicentenary of the adoption of laws that abolished slavery in Britain.
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The Irish Republican Army apologized for abducting and killing a Belfast teenager 31 years ago, a gesture that might signal the outlawed group's willingness to tell the truth about other murders.