Slavery – Page 4 – People's World

Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires

September 23, 2022 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.

Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe has chilling parallels with racist Dred Scott decision

May 13, 2022 By Jesse Jackson

We must have mass action, litigation, legislation, and registration. It’s not too late.

Major court victory against desecration of Bethesda’s Moses African Cemetery

October 26, 2021 By Jamal Rich

The cemetery is among the largest mass graves in the United States, but real estate developers have been eyeing the site for years.

Hundreds turn out Juneteenth to stop desecration of Maryland cemetery

June 22, 2021 By Special to People’s World

Profiteering developers would deny Black people even the right of a decent permanent burial.

For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’

March 9, 2021 By Pedrosa Neto

MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...