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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 ...
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...
Seven new ice cream flavours and the Pope: Italy prepares to host G7
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIt was denounced by their unions as having “inhuman” conditions, resembling those of ancient slave...
‘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...
End AP African American Studies? I don’t know how much more Black people in SC can take. | Opinion
The State via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoIt’s the kind of white supremacy that protects racist Confederate statues and monuments on public...
Aspen Meadows hosts Juneteenth Celebration with award-winning chefs on Sunday
The Aspen Times· 3 days agois hosting its third Juneteenth Celebration, which marks the end of the Food & Wine Classic in...
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...
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,...
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...