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Kindred by Octavia Butler
“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery…” Kindred is a …
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Cobalt Red Book Review: Bloodshed in the Congo’s Mines
Author and expert on modern slavery, Siddharth Kara, exposes the treacherous living and working conditions …
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Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid: One Battle in the Struggle for Freedom
On June 2, 1863, during the U.S. Civil War, two Union Army gunships (the Harriet …
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The Louisiana Slave Rebellion of 1811 – America’s First Freedom March
January 8-10 marks the anniversary of the Louisiana Rebellion of 1811, also known as the …
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John Brown’s Raid on Harpers’ Ferry: One Battle in a Long Struggle
John Brown and his followers stand as an example of how working people of different skin colors and backgrounds can join together and take action against the oppressing ruling classes. For that reason, we recognize John Brown’s raid as part of the long struggle to end oppression and create a just and equal world for all people. …
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Book Review: The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, opens with a quote from Fredrick Douglass: “My part has been to tell the story of the slave. The story of the master never wanted for narrators.” …
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A Nation of Mass Incarceration
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. While the U.S. has less …