Black History Month has always been about abolition for me. I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ...

In 2020, as protests over violent policing erupted nationwide, defunding and abolishing the police became part of the mainstream discourse for the first time. This abolitionist movement is now gaining ...

Our team at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities recently gathered for a three-day retreat as a culminating event in our 10 th anniversary year of reflection, recommitment and ...

The Department of History and CWRU History Associates will welcome Manisha Sinha, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, for the biannual ...

Patrisse Cullors has been a force in the social justice and activism space as one of the three founders of the Black Lives Matter movement alongside Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza. As an artist, author, ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By William G. Thomas III THE COLOR OF ABOLITION How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a ...

Despite an ongoing legal challenge, New York City is going ahead with a plan for artwork at a new park that will feature messages of social justice, not the statuary some had sought. By Zachary Small ...

Johns Hopkins, the founder of the Baltimore research university and hospital who was was long believed to be a staunch and early abolitionist, owned slaves, the institution announced Wednesday. Census ...

After 200 years, the nation’s first abolitionist newspaper is returning–and it couldn’t have come back at a better time. In an unfortunate way, what is old often becomes new again when considering the ...

Habekah Cannon, a North Carolina-based lawyer who identifies herself as an “abolitionist” and is a longtime critic of the U.S. judicial system, is set to become a judge after winning a primary ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

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