The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, dedicated its National Monument to Freedom on June 19, 2024, in the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The National Monument to Freedom stands four stories tall. It is inscribed with 122,000 surnames that formerly enslaved people chose for themselves, according to the 1870…
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News Opinion | Slavery Didn’t End With Emancipation. It Persists in U.S. Prisons.
Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the farthest outpost in America. Many people do not realize that Emancipation did not legally end slavery in the United States, however. The 13th Amendment — the culmination of centuries of resistance by enslaved people, a lifetime of abolitionist campaigning and a…
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News On this day in history, June 19, 1865, the end of slavery is proclaimed in Texas
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News California reparations payouts on hold, but state moves toward apology for slavery
The California Senate held up plans to dole out reparations payouts to its citizens, but the Assembly voted to formally apologize for the state’s role in slavery. The California Assembly passed a bill Thursday that will accept responsibility for “all of the harms and atrocities committed by the state” and will head to the Senate,…
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News California lawmakers introduce reparations package with formal apology for slavery
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News Opinion | Why Reparations For Slavery Are Long Overdue
In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations program for Black Americans. When I was selling my novel in 2021, it was pitched to publishers as “speculative fiction, but only slightly.” I hadn’t specifically identified that genre, but I could see how it…
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News Boston announces reparations task force that will study impact slavery had on residents: City ‘on trial’
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