The movement’s lawyers want detailed language delineating what constitutes involuntary servitude so courts can be compelled to defend prisoners’ rights against forced labor. At the same time, ...

In response to ongoing challenges about market exclusion, the My Black Receipt initiative emerged as a dynamic social movement. Here’s what helped it thrive, per these researchers. Supporting ...

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“If we want to survive, we’ll have to work for them.” Pedro (not his real name) is a member of a riverside community in Amazonas, talking about criminal enterprises that are turning the forests into ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

Agnoli writes about restoring the relation of the paths to the goal, the means-end relationship, towards an emancipatory communism. Emancipation: Paths and Goals appeared in What is to be Done?

Founded in 1837 on the southwest corner of Mill and Vassar streets in the then Village of Poughkeepsie, the First Congregational Church of Poughkeepsie was organized by members of the municipality’s ...

Protestors demand basic income in Spain in 2014. Joaquin Gomez Sastre/Demotix. All Rights Reserved. Last May, I argued in a piece for Al-Jazeera that the emerging ...

June 16 (UPI) --Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the United States and Emancipation Day being officially recognized on Aug. 1 in Canada demonstrate significant progress toward creating ...

Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the United States and Emancipation Day being officially recognized on Aug. 1 in Canada demonstrate significant progress towards creating more equitable ...