The racist legacy of the American death penalty.
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It is a good time to ask how the travel and tourism industry has contributed to racism and how that can change.
Companies may have a moral obligation to make amends, but slavery victims won’t find it easy to argue they have a legal right to reparations.
History will cast a long shadow over Donald Trump’s first campaign rally since the pandemic began.
Black farmers own far less land than they did in 1910 and the racial gap in homeownership is at the highest level for 50 years.
From the earliest days of the anti-slavery movement, Black religious leaders have infused the fight for civil rights with spirituality.
As the American Civil War interrupted cotton production, plantation owners looked to the new colony of Queensland.
Reparations to African Canadians for enslavement and historical injustices need not be financial payments to every individual African Canadian. Instead funds for specific groups are a viable option.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement that ‘there was no slavery in Australia’ is at odds with the historical record.
Statues and monuments have been used to present a revisionist history in which empire was great while omitting the violence they subvertly celebrate.
The statue was part of a push in the Victorian era to create mercantile heroes. Colston’s slaving activities were conveniently glossed over.
After years of inaction by authorities, protesters have forced the point – opening a new chapter in this monument’s history.
Maids were among Brazil’s earliest COVID-19 victims, infected by employers who had been to Italy. Now 39% of Brazilian ‘domésticas’ have been let go, most without severance or sick leave.
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
The US has a centuries-old tradition of killing black people without repercussion – and of publicly viewing the violence. Spreading those images can disrespect the dead and traumatize viewers.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
The problems and ideologies that define American culture were formed in the 19th century.
During two 17th-century medical calamities, economic imperatives outweighed moral concerns.
Britain’s Royal Navy embarked on a huge anti-slavery campaign, but those ‘rescued’ didn’t always feel the benefits.
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