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Lawmakers on Juneteenth push for change to 13th Amendment
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMembers of Congress and others, pointing to the Juneteenth holiday, are pushing for the expansion of...
The 13th Amendment's fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn this rare photograph taken in 2000, prisoners at the Ferguson Unit in Texas are seen working in...
'A matter of right and wrong': Amendment 3 to ban slavery from state constitution
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEditor's note: This story has been updated to clarify the two-part process for constitutional...
Does Prison Labor Pervert What it Means to Say ‘Made in the USA?’
Sourcing Journal via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe federal government awards contracts for a vast majority of its textile production needs to...
Anti-abortion laws constitute involuntary servitude that violates 13th Amendment | Opinion
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 12 months agoOpEd: When government restricts abortion, at any stage of pregnancy, government in effect seizes...
Agnes and Catherine Gund on Effecting Radical Change Through Art
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAgnes and Catherine Gund on Art and Social JusticeBFA I never thought 1960s Pop artist Roy...
New slavery curriculum in Florida is latest in century of 'undermining history'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIn 1918, prominent American historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips framed institutional slavery as a...
California lawmakers revive effort to ban involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn inmate from the Puerta La Cruz conservation camp in Warner Springs puts out burning downed trees...
What is Juneteenth and what does Abraham Lincoln have to do with it? A historian explains
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen 76-year-old Mary Clay and her family moved to Springfield from Memphis in the 1970s, she was...
Slavery's legacy is written all over North Jersey, if you know where to look
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew Jersey residents might like to think that, as Northerners, we don't share the South's brutal...