Slavery
California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing
August 6, 2025They may be innocent until proven guilty, but if they were convicted, they’d actually get paid.
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Haiti has disturbed U.S. ruling class for two centuries; Springfield is latest flare-up
September 27, 2024Large numbers of migrants have arrived suddenly in other U.S. cities before, why is Springfield different?
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‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all
September 9, 2024The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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Gerald Horne endows International Publishers research prize on Indigenous dispossession and Black oppression
January 18, 2024$1,000 scholarship seeks the best new manuscript.
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