Slavery

Hundreds turn out Juneteenth to stop desecration of Maryland cemetery

June 22, 2021 By Kristian Berhost

Profiteering developers would deny Black people even the right of a decent permanent burial.

For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’

March 9, 2021 By Pedrosa Neto

MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...

Amending the 13th Amendment: Lawmakers aim to end legalized prison slavery

December 4, 2020 By Aaron Morrison

Sen. Jeff Merkley: 13th Amendment “continued the process of a white power class mistreating Black Americans, creating generations of poverty, family breakup, and mass incarceration."

Coalition fights self-storage company’s desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery

September 29, 2020 By Mari E. Shields

Black Lives Matter. In life and in death.

CARICOM reclama justicia reparadora tras siglos de esclavitud

August 23, 2020 By Prensa Latina

Bajo el respaldo de Naciones Unidas, CARICOM exige a antiguos colonizadores como Reino Unido, Francia, España, Portugal, Países Bajos, Noruega, Suecia y Dinamarca entregar disculpas por años de opresión y discriminación sin ser obligados de hacerlo...