Slavery
Gerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression
January 18, 2024$1,000 scholarship seeks the best new manuscript.
Read moreIs slavery back in Alabama?
December 20, 2023For private businesses, prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers’ compensation to pay.
Read moreGhana’s president says U.S. and European wealth built on slavery, calls for reparations
September 22, 2023Speaking at the United Nations, Nana Akufo-Addo says it’s time to acknowledge the West was built thanks to the unpaid labor and horrors of African slavery.
Read moreOver 200 bones unearthed and withheld from descendants of a historic Black cemetery
September 21, 2023Real estate developer says the remains are all non-human, but a local coalition wants a second opinion.
Read moreCapoeira-based action musical tells of the escaped slave republic Palmares
June 6, 2023Palmares is a compelling story of a people fighting to preserve their freedom against the imperialism of their time.
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