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Lawsuit says prison labor system in Alabama amounts to 'modern-day form of slavery'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCurrent and former prisoners are suing Alabama, fast food franchisees and other beneficiaries of the state's prison labor system they say is a “modern-day form of slavery” where incarcerated ...
What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday?
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCelebrated annually on 19 June across the US, Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas and the nation’s “second”...
Sheriffs hold a lot of power in counties across America. What are their political views?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOver the last decade, debates about police violence, mass incarceration and other criminal justice...
Opinion: This is the Black history that Florida’s guidelines distort
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFlorida’s Board of Education standards for teaching Black history are an erasure that reinforce a...
NPR's Eric Deggans: Bigotry and racism are your issues, too
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 16—Are you a racist — without realizing ? You might be surprised, Eric Deggans said, Monday morning at WVU's Mountainlair. Even if you inherently aren't — or think you aren't — you still ...
