The WGN America series seems to have been neglected in an increasingly diverse television landscape.

Today is D.C. Emancipation Day, when the city celebrates the act that ended slavery within city limits in 1862.

One of the greatest American novels of the past 30 years is giving a Fairfax County high-school student a bit of agita. Naturally, the kid’s mother wants it banned.

From WUSA9: “An elementary school teacher in Norfolk, Virginia is being criticized for her Civil War history lesson. Fourth grade teacher Jessica Boyle held a mock slave auction by letting white students take turns buying black and mixed-race students.” Wow.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has been taking a ton of heat over the past 24 hours (including from DCist) for bringing Confederate History Month back to the commonwealth but trying to pretend like that history didn’t prominently include slavery. And now it looks like all the criticism has made an impact: McDonnell issued a lengthy apology at the end of the day Wednesday, and added new language to his proclamation, so that it now…

From the AP via WTOP, it seems a Montgomery County man has pleaded guilty to holding a Nigerian teenager as a slave for five years. George Udeozor, 52, smuggled a 14-year-old Nigerian girl to the U.S. and used the girl as an unpaid domestic servant and child care provider. Sounds like that new Montgomery County law requiring contracts for domestic workers couldn’t have come at a better time….