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The Warmth of Other Suns: Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration
Should they go or should they stay? That was a question millions of African Americans living in the South asked themselves in the 20th Century.
The Ideology of Symbolism, the Symbols of Idolatry
"All Men are created equal" conjures up feelings of patriotic zeal, a sense of commonality within the citizenry of the country, and a belief that ours was a country …
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The Bleached Bones of the Dead: What the Modern World Owes Slavery
How would we calculate the value of what we today would call the intellectual property - in medicine and other fields - generated by slavery's suffering?
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Jordan Davis, Another Victim of a Murderous Historical Continuum
The subtext to the untimely deaths of Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and Sean Bell remains race.
Untold History: More Than a Quarter of US Presidents Were Involved in Slavery, Human Trafficking
As the country marks Presidents' Day, we turn to an aspect of US history that is often missed: the complicity of American presidents with slavery.
The Two Faces of Empire: Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them
There exists a near perfect inverse symmetry between the real story of Amasa and the fictional story of Ahab, with each representing a face of the American Empire.
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Slavery’s Legacies of Racism and Dehumanization of Labor Still Poison the US
The popular movie and 1853 book,
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“Twelve Years a Slave”: Kidnapped Into the Horror of Slavery
Solomon Northup's memoir offers a vivid, horrifying account of the abominable practice of slavery.
Shackles and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America’s Elite Colleges
A new book 10 years in the making examines how many major US universities are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the US …
Neoliberalism Plays Key Role in Economically Forced Mexican Migration to US
Truthout talks with David Bacon, author of The Right to Stay Home, about how much of the Mexican migration to the United States comes about in dire response to …