Slavery

United Nations calls for reparations to confront legacy of slavery and colonialism

June 19, 2020 By Combined Sources

George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, implored the UN: “I am asking you to help him. I am asking you to help me. I am asking you to help us Black people in America.”

Racist monuments fall: Watery end for slave trader statue in UK

June 9, 2020 By Pan Pylas

The Colston statue wasn’t the only historic sculpture to have been targeted by protesters.

Rewriting the United States’ past (and future): The 1619 Project and its critics

January 17, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

It's time to rethink everything you thought you knew about U.S. history.

Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project

January 9, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Without linking capitalist development to the material force of white supremacy and imperialism, much of the historical development and contemporary process slips into an ideological and nationalist discourse.

400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide

August 27, 2019 By Jessicah Pierre

I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.