Jamila Akweley Okertchiri / TruthdigAug 27, 2026
As its gold enriches foreign markets and IMF debt weighs heavily, the country is demanding the world reckon with what Africans and African descendants are owed for the “gravest crime against humanity.” Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Madeleine Wattenbarger / TruthdigJul 6, 2026
George Washington kept slaves from petitioning for their freedom in violation of Pennsylvania state law. Now Trump wants their memory scrubbed from history. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Erin Aubry Kaplan / Capital & MainJun 19, 2026
A half-century after the publication of Alex Haley’s masterwork, a Tennessee school board’s move to ban the book has stoked outcry. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Jonathan Ort / Africa Is A CountrySep 10, 2025
Trump’s deportation regime revives a colonial blueprint first drafted by the American Colonization Society, when Black lives were exiled to Africa to safeguard a white republic. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Robert Reich / SubstackSep 2, 2025
Donald Trump's fixation on "wokeness" has nothing to do with "liberal bias" and everything to do with uncomfortable truths of reality. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan / Democracy Now!Aug 22, 2025
The Trump administration is normalizing the rejection of history and the indescribable horror of slavery in the United States. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Natalia Marques / Peoples DispatchFeb 24, 2025
The Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after a former plantation, and those incarcerated there say the practice of slavery lives on. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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