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Following a long campaign by actor Kirk Douglas, the Senate today passed a formal apology for slavery.

The 92-year-old film icon, who played a slave in 1960’s ‘Spartacus,’ has been asking Congress for a formal apology for slavery for years, including collecting signatures on his MySpace page.

In April, Douglas wrote on his MySpace page: "As I told you quite some time ago, in my last book Let’s Face It, I wrote about the importance of our country showing the world that we are capable of humility by making an apology for our behavior towards African-Americans before and after the Civil War. I think this action is more important right now."

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