Slavery
‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all
September 9, 2024The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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Gerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression
January 18, 2024$1,000 scholarship seeks the best new manuscript.
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Is 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.
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Ghana’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.
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