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‘End Slavery in California Act’ clears key hurdle
ABC 10 Sacramento· 2 days agoAn effort to end forced labor for inmates is underway. It’s a key legislative priority of California’s first-in-the-nation Reparations Task Force, and...
London doesn’t need an African Goddess, Sadiq Khan. Why not British abolitionists?
Daily Telegraph· 7 days agoIf the statue of a slaver is to be replaced, perhaps it should not be with the deity of a slaving ...
Seven new ice cream flavours and the Pope: Italy prepares to host G7
BBC via AOL· 1 day agoIt was denounced by their unions as having “inhuman” conditions, resembling those of ancient slave...
What If Reconstruction Didn’t End Till 1920?
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTheir goal, in this view, was to create an industrial-capitalist state based on wage, not slave, labor and on par with liberal empires in Europe. Sinha...
End AP African American Studies? I don’t know how much more Black people in SC can take. | Opinion
The State via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoIt’s the kind of white supremacy that protects racist Confederate statues and monuments on public...
Celebrate Juneteenth in the Rock Hill area with these 7 events, festivals
Rock Hill Herald via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoJuneteenth is the June 19 federal holiday commemorating the 1865 announcement in Galveston, Texas,...
‘Wide Awake’ Review: On the March for Lincoln
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days ago-Americans became Wide Awakes, with the Ohio lawyer John Mercer Langston (later a congressman representing Virginia) and the Bostonian Lewis Hayden, a...
Opal Lee’s Walk for Freedom won’t be in Fort Worth this year, but its mission is unchanged
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 2 days agoIt will cost $35 for adults to participate in the walk; $10 for spectators; and $15 for non-walkers...
Letters to the Editor: What halting diversity programs looks like to a 90-year-old Black woman
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) To the editor: My great-grandfather was a freed slave. I...
The most under-covered story of 2024: Trump and right-wing extremism
Mother Jones· 12 hours agoThe newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and...