America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through ...

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Climate change and slavery form a vicious cycle. Collective action for a free and livable future is an opportunity to combat ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. on June 19 signed an Executive Order establishing the “Task Force to Examine ...

Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black ...

While state legislation on reparations remains stalled, the NJISJ-led council of experts has completed its investigation into ...

Texas Southern University and the Houston-based law firm, Roberts Markland, announced a new partnership. The partnership will ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...