Advocates, historians, and descendants of enslaved people are planning to join a 60-mile walk in Texas to bring attention to ...

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed involuntary servitude but it also made an exception for convicts.

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

Getty Images | aldomurillo Mexico has the 15th largest nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in the world and its economic improvement has been linked primarily to its involvement with the North ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump’s order only carries ...

And there is precedent for it: In 1833, the United Kingdom passed the Slavery Abolition Act across much of the British Empire. It paid to liberate its enslaved population by compensating slave ...

We use the language of “abolition” after W.E.B. Du Bois, who believed that the abolition of slavery never actually arrived. While chattel slavery was ended, this did not remedy the economic or social ...

Users in Mexico will continue to see the “Gulf of Mexico” on Google Maps. The rest of the world will see both names. US President Donald Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 25, 2025.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hedged Tuesday on whether Mexico would accept U.S. military flights carrying deportees under the Trump administration’s mass-expulsion plans ...

Google Maps users in the U.S. will soon see “Gulf of America” in place of “Gulf of Mexico” and “Mount McKinley” instead of “Denali” on the map, in line with President Donald Trump ...

Google Maps users in the United States can expect to see the body of water known for centuries as the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America, aligning with the terms of President Trump's ...