Slavery
For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, 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...
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Amending the 13th Amendment: Lawmakers aim to end legalized prison slavery
December 4, 2020Sen. Jeff Merkley: 13th Amendment “continued the process of a white power class mistreating Black Americans, creating generations of poverty, family breakup, and mass incarceration."
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Coalition fights self-storage company’s desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery
September 29, 2020Black Lives Matter. In life and in death.
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CARICOM reclama justicia reparadora tras siglos de esclavitud
August 23, 2020Bajo 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...
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Anti-slavery solidarity united Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx, and British workers
June 25, 2020Reviving a forgotten history of anti-slavery solidarity.
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